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 members, the Federal President or the Federal Chancellor so demand.

(1) The Bundestag shall elect its President, his deputies and its clerks. It shall draw up its Standing Orders (Rules of Procedure).

(2) The President shall have charge of, and exercise police power in, the Bundestag building. No search or seizure may take place without his permission in the precincts of the Bundestag.

(1) The review of elections shall be the responsibility of the Bundestag. It shall decide also whether a deputy has lost his membership in the Bundestag.

(2) An appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court against a decision of the Bundestag shall be admissible.

(3) Details shall be regulated by a federal law.

(1) Meetings of the Bundestag shall be public. Upon a motion of one-tenth of its members or upon a motion of the Federal Government the public may, by a two-thirds majority, be excluded. A decision on the motion will be made in a closed meeting.

(2) Decisions of the Bundestag shall require the majority of votes cast insofar as the Basic Law does not determine otherwise. Standing Orders (Rules of Procedure) may admit exceptions in the case of elections to beheld by the Bundestag.

(3) Accurate reports of the public meetings of the Bundestag and of its committees shall be privileged.

(1) The Bundestag and its committees may demand the presence of any member of the Federal Government. Rh