Bundesrat

基本解釋

That erased the federal government’s majority in the Bundesrat, the legislature’s upper house.
這使得聯(lián)合政府失去了在聯(lián)邦參議院的多數(shù)席位。
Last year her government lost its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, which represents the states.
去年她的政府即丟掉了聯(lián)邦參議院大部分選票，而聯(lián)邦參議院基本代表了這個(gè)州。
In a way, the NRW result plays to Mrs Merkel’s strengths. The new alignment of the Bundesrat will call on her mediating skills.
但某種程度來說，北威州選舉結(jié)果有助于發(fā)揮默克爾的優(yōu)勢(shì)，聯(lián)邦參議院新的結(jié)盟需要她的協(xié)調(diào)能力。

He being also the Bundesrat's chairman, this was not contested, and all was well.
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Since the two parties could not agree, the state's Bundesrat members would normally have abstained.
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But the Christian Democrats, with 24 seats, are themselves far from having a Bundesrat majority.
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(in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level