Editing President of Germany (section)

===Appointment of the Federal Government===
After an election or other vacancy in the chancellor's office, the president must propose an individual to the Bundestag to be elected chancellor. The Bundestag is required to vote on this proposed candidate. If this vote fails, the right of nomination falls to the Bundestag, which is then given 14 days to elect another person. In either case, the President is obliged to appoint the person if a majority of the entire elected Bundestag, not just those present, votes for them (the so-called ''Kanzlermehrheit'', "Chancellor majority").

If the Bundestag cannot elect anyone with a majority in the 14-day period, it is required to hold one final ballot. If a person is elected with a majority on this ballot, the President is once again obliged to appoint them. If there is no majority, the President has seven days to either appoint the person who received a plurality of votes on the final ballot or dissolve the Bundestag. 

The chancellor may only be removed if the Bundestag passes a [[constructive vote of no confidence]], indicating that a prospective new chancellor has the support of a majority. The President is then required to dismiss the chancellor and appoint the new candidate.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book
  |title=Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
  |at=Article 67
  |language=de }}</ref>

The president also appoints and dismisses the remaining members of the federal government upon proposal of the chancellor. This theoretically means that the president can appoint only those candidates presented by the chancellor. It is unclear whether the president could refuse to dismiss or appoint a proposed federal minister, as no president has ever done so.

The constitution places no restrictions on who may be chancellor. In practice, the president only proposes a person as chancellor who has previously garnered a majority support in prior coalition talks and traditionally does not interfere in those talks. However, after the "[[Jamaica coalition (politics)|Jamaica coalition]]" talks failed in the wake of the [[2017 German federal election|2017 election]], President Steinmeier invited several Bundestag party leaders to try to bring them together to form a working government.