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Martin Schulz
Martin Schulz in July 2017
Chancellor of Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2017
President	Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Vice Chancellor	Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Preceded by	Angela Merkel
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 March 2017
Preceded by	Sigmar Gabriel
President of the European Parliament
In office 17 January 2012 – 17 January 2017
Vice President	List Antonio Tajani (EPP) Mairead McGuinness (EPP) Rainer Wieland (EPP) Ramón Luis Valcárcel (EPP) Ildikó Pelczné Gáll (EPP) Adina Vălean (EPP) Corina Crețu (S&D) Sylvie Guillaume (S&D) David Sassoli (S&D) Olli Rehn (ALDE) Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (ALDE) Ulrike Lunacek (G/EFA) Dimitrios Papadimoulis (GUE/NGL) Ryszard Czarnecki (ECR)
Preceded by	Jerzy Buzek
Succeeded by	Antonio Tajani
Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
In office 5 July 2004 – 17 January 2012
Preceded by	Enrique Barón Crespo
Succeeded by	Hannes Swoboda
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 September 2017
Member of the European Parliament
In office 19 July 1994 – 19 February 2017
Constituency	Germany
Personal details
Born	(1955-12-20) 20 December 1955 Hehlrath, Germany
Political party	SPD
Spouse	Inge Schulz (m. 1992)
Children	2
Signature
Website	Official website

German federal election, 2017

24 September 2017
All 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 84 overhang and leveling seats 342 seats needed for a majority
Registered	46,976,341
Turnout	46,976,341 (76.2%) 4.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Martin Schulz Angela Merkel Alice Weidel & Alexander Gauland Party SPD CDU/CSU AfD Leader since 19 March 2017 10 April 2000 – Leader's seat North Rhine-Westphalia Vorpommern-Rügen-Greifswald Baden-Württemberg & Brandenburg Last election 193 seats, 25.7% 311 seats, 41.5% 0 seats, 4.7% Seats won 244 220 94 Seat change 51 91 94 Popular vote 15,347,767 13,837,202 5,952,617 Percentage 32.7% 29,5% 12.7% Swing 8% 12% 8%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt & Cem Özdemir Sahra Wagenknecht & Dietmar Bartsch Party Greens Left Leader since – (Göring-Eckardt) 15 November 2008 (Özdemir) – Leader's seat Thuringia & Baden-Württemberg North Rhine-Westphalia & Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Last election 63 seats, 8.4% 64 seats, 8.6% Seats won 66 58 Seat change 3 6 Popular vote 4,151,713 3,667,898 Percentage 8.8% 7.8% Swing 0.4% 0.8%
Chancellor before election Angela Merkel CDU/CSU Elected Chancellor Martin Schulz SPD

First Martin Schulz Cabinet
Cabinet of Germany
Incumbent
Date formed	10 December 2017
Date dissolved	2021
People and organisations
Head of state	Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Head of government	Martin Schulz
Member party	Social Democratic Party of Germany The Greens The Left
Status in legislature	Grand coalition
Opposition party	Christian Democratic Union Christian Social Union of Bavaria Alternative for Germany
History
Election(s)	German federal election, 2017
Legislature term(s)	19th legislature of the Bundestag
Predecessor	Merkel III

Saxony state election, 2018

1 April 2018
All 126 seats of the Landtag of Saxony 64 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	55.8%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Carsten Hütter Michael Kretschmer Rico Gebhardt Party AfD CDU Left Last election 14 seats, 9.7 59 seats, 39.4% 27 seats, 18.9% Seats won 40 37 20 Seat change 26 22 7 Popular vote 582,924 521,741 286812 Percentage 30.9% 27.7% 15.2% Swing 23.2% 11.7% 3.7%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Martin Dulig Christin Melcher Jürgen Kasek Holger Zastrow Party SPD Greens FDP Last election 18 seats, 12.4% 8 seats, 5.7% 0 seats, 3.8% Seats won 16 7 7 Seat change 2 1 14 Popular vote 230,124 98,171 61,847 Percentage 12.2% 5.2% 5.0% Swing 0.2% 0.5% 1.2%
Minister-President before election Stanislaw Tillich CDU Minister-President after election Michael Kretschmer CDU