The new Bundestag will be installed on Tuesday. With 736 members, it is the largest ever. Of the members elected on September 26, 279 are taking their first seats in the German parliament.
The fact that the number of seats in the Bundestag is constantly changing with the German electoral system.
The Christian Democrat chairman Wolfgang Schläube opens the session and immediately takes his leave. The new Bundestag almost certainly elects the social democrat Bärbel Bas as its new chairman. She is then the third female speaker of parliament.
After their election defeat, the Christian Democrats no longer have the most delegates for the first time in a long time. They won fewer seats than the Social Democrats.
They hope that their leader Olaf Scholz will become chancellor. Negotiations are underway for a coalition of the SPD (Social Democrats) with the Greens and the liberal FDP.