How German elections work: Who chooses the chancellor? | DW News?

Germany has voters choosing who will be the chancellor, just like kids pick a class leader.

Imagine your classroom is a country. Each student is a voter, and they vote for their favorite person to be the class leader, that’s like the chancellor in Germany. But instead of voting directly for the class leader, you vote for someone else first: the members of the parliament.

These members are called deputies, and each one represents a group of people in the country. After all the deputies are chosen, they gather together to pick who will be the chancellor, that’s like the class leader being chosen by the kids who were voted for by others.

So, it's like this: you pick your favorite deputy, and then those deputies pick the person who will lead everything, the chancellor. It’s a two-step process where voters choose the deputies, and deputies choose the chancellor.

Sometimes, if no one gets enough votes in the first round, there might be a second try, just like if your class had to pick again if everyone was tied.