Summingia

Summingia Sümmingen
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Country	Besmenia
Capital	Freiz
Government
• Type	Parliamentary republic, partially sovereign member state of a federal state
• Body	State Chamber of Summingia
• Governor	Georg Stuck (BVP)
• Governing parties	BVP/FBBP/ZAB
• Federal Senate votes	5 (of 64)
Population  (2021)
• Total	7,273,037
Demonym	Summingian

Summingia (Besmenian: Sümmingen) is a federal state located in Besmenia.

Politics

Executive

The executive is led by the state government of Summingia, which consists of the Summingian governors and the state ministers. The governor is elected by the state chamber with a majority of its members without debate in a secret ballot for the entire legislative period. The governor appoints and dismisses state ministers. He also appoints a state minister as his deputy. The state chamber can only depose the governor through a constructive vote of no confidence.

Summingian state government

The Summingian state government is the regional government of Summingia. The current state government, formed by the BVP, FBBP and the ZAB, began work on June 28, 2021.
  Georg Stuck (BVP), Governor
  Beate Gerstner (FBBP), State Minister for Finance, First deputy governor
  Anton Friedemann (BVP), State Minister for Environment, Agriculture and Energy
  Nadine Heidenbach (FBBP), State Minister for Labour and Social Affairs
  Johanna Liesinger-Baum (BVP), State Minister for Justice
  Sabrina Eisenmann (ZAB) State Minister for Family, Women and Youth, Second deputy governor
  Arnold Weinberger (BVP), State Minister for Economy and Science
  Norbert Kessler (FBBP), State Minister of the Interior
  Erik Schildenfeld (BVP), State Minister for Education and Sports
  Theodor Kickel (FBBP), State Minister for Traffic and Infrastructure
  Marcus Schnabel (ZAB), State Minister for Federal Affairs and Regional Development
  Martin Löscher (BVP), State Minister for Health and Care

Governors of Summingia since 1920
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Election
1	File:Arthur Ballner.png	Arthur Ballner (1868-1943)	22 September 1920	12 November 1924	SDU	1920
2	File:Erich Bärtling.png	Erich Bärtling (1878-1951)	12 November 1924	20 November 1932	BVP	1924 1928
3	File:Gustav Parzinger.png	Gustav Parzinger (1883-1961)	20 November 1932	18 November 1946	BVP	1932 1936 1940
4	File:Walter Etzenbach.png	Walter Etzenbach (1892-1978)	18 November 1946	23 November 1958	LBB	1946 1952
5	File:Manfred Krause.png	Manfred Krause (1896-1993)	23 November 1958	7 May 1963	BVP	1958
6		Kurt Weimer (1901-1995)	7 May 1963	7 July 1976	BVP	1963 1969 1975
7		Werner Texinger senior (1916-1992)	7 July 1976	8 April 1992 †	BVP	1981 1987
8	File:Dieter Limbach.jpg	Dieter Limbach (1935-)	8 April 1992	7 September 1994	BVP	1993
9		Ursula Kummstein (1949-)	7 September 1994	30 August 2001	FBBP	1994 2000
10	File:Josef Simmert.jpg	Josef Simmert (1954-)	30 August 2001	10 September 2006	FBBP	-
11	File:Werner Texinger junior.jpg	Werner Texinger junior (1942-)	10 September 2006	23 August 2015	BVP	2006 2012
12		Georg Stuck (1966-)	23 August 2015	Incumbent	BVP	2018 2020

Legislature

The legislature is the State Chamber of Summingia, which is elected every five years using the proportional representation. The Summingian parliament consists of 118 members.

Local government

The 38 Summingian distritcs.

Summingia is divided into 38 districts (Landbezirk).

Economy

Summingia is considered to be a very economically strong and rich state, it has developed from an agricultural to a technological location in recent decades and is one of the main centers of the Besmenian industries. Summingia's share of the Besmenian economic output was 19.9 percent in 2022. The economically strongest region is the Greater Freiz area.