German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on citizens to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming federal election on Sunday in a video message. “We all bear responsibility for one another and for the future of our country” he said in the video, which was published on the social media channels of the Federal President on Sunday. “That’s why I ask you: please go vote – and vote with the awareness that your vote could be the deciding one” he emphasized.
According to Steinmeier, there are two good reasons to vote: firstly, because one’s future in the country is at stake and secondly, to strengthen and protect the free democratic system enshrined in the Basic Law by casting one’s own ballot.