Government & administration
Bundesrat
Federal council of the states
Not a senate, whatever it is called in translation. Its members are cabinet ministers of the sixteen state governments, sent as delegates and voting as instructed by their state — nobody is elected to it.
What it does
- Selecting and disciplining judges
- Regional representation in national law
No counterpart recorded for France yet
We hold this body, but nothing has been verified as its equivalent in the other country. Ask for it and an editor will look.