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By contrast in an indirect election, the voters cast elect an assembly which in turn elects the officeholder in question. Some examples of indirectly elected bodies would include:

the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council Of Europe , OSCE , the WEU and NATO - in all of these cases, voters elect national parliamentarians, who in turn elect some of their own members to the assembly

the election of the government in most Parliamentary System s - the voters elect the parliamentarians, who then elect the government from among themselves

the German Bundesrat , where voters elect the Landtag members, who then elect the state government, which then appoints its members to the Bundesrat

the election of the US President is technically indirect -- the voters elect the electoral college, who then elects the President -- although in practice it resembles a direct election for most purposes

most bodies formed of representatives of national governments, e.g. the United Nations General Assembly , can be considered indirectly elected (assuming the national governments are democratically elected in the first place, which is often not the cause)

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