The 21st Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany, was elected in the 23 February 2025 federal election. It was constituted on the last possible date, 25 March 2025, with the old parliament changing the constitution in between.
The President of the Bundestag is Julia Klöckner (CDU). Each party resp. faction is supposed to be represented with one Vice-President, in most cases a formality. Since the AfD had joined the Bundestag for the first time in 2017, no AfD candidate has ever been approved in dozens of attempts, due to the "firewall" policy of all other parties.
The 21st Bundestag is the first to have the fixed number of 630 members, 103 seats smaller than the 20th Bundestag, with 733 members resulting from former proprotional regulations. It started with 208 members of the CDU/CSU (Union), 152 members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), 120 members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 85 members of Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne), 64 members of The Left (Linke), and one member of the Danish regional minority South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW).
One AfD parliamentarian (Sieghard Knodel) left party and faction after on 2 May 2025 the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, (BfV) Germany's federal domestic intelligence agency, had classified the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" organisation. This classification was temporarily suspended by the BfV just a week after its announcement.
On 6 May 2025 Friedrich Merz (CDU) was elected as Chancellor of Germany and sworn in alongside his cabinet. Merz failed to garner the required absolute majority of parliamentary votes in a first round of voting â a first in German history for a chancellor candidate.
According to Bundestag parliamentary rules of procedure, each faction is entitled to one Vice-President, with each faction candidate usually approved on first ballot. This has not been applied yet to any AfD candidate, even though a few already had served as state parliament Vice-Presidents. As of October 2025, the AfD had put forward three candidates during a total of five ballot occasions during 21st Bundestag sessions, all of which have failed to reach the required majority, usually winning only a few dozens votes from other factions. Since the party joined the Bundestag in 2017, none of dozens of AfD candidates has ever been approved.
This is the list of members elected in the 2025 election according to preliminary results.