The XXL Bundestag should shrink back to its normal size. This is provided for in a draft law by the three traffic light groups. Sharp criticism comes from the Union.
The CSU raises sharp protest against the plans of the traffic light coalition to reform the federal electoral law. “With its proposal for electoral law reform, the traffic light operates organized election fraud,” said CSU General Secretary Martin Huber on Monday. “We’ve only seen rogue states denying directly elected members of parliament access to parliament.”
The traffic light factions have presented a bill for an electoral law reform that would reduce the Bundestag back to its normal size of 598 MPs. Due to overhang and compensation mandates, the parliament continued to grow – to 736 MPs. The draft law by the SPD, Greens and FDP now provides that there should be no more overhang and compensation mandates in the future. As a result, MPs directly elected in a constituency may not get a seat in the Bundestag.
The chairmen of the traffic light parliamentary groups in the Bundestag sent the draft law to CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) on Sunday. In a letter they offered to talk about it.
Huber said the plans will not be accepted as they are. “The left-yellow traffic light is laying the ax on our democratic foundation,” said the CSU politician. “The traffic light takes precedence over the voters’ will. That’s unconstitutional and we won’t accept that.”
Overhang mandates arise when a party wins more mandates from the first votes than it is entitled to based on the result of the second vote. The party may keep these additional mandates. The other parties receive compensatory mandates in return. The CDU and above all the CSU have prevented effective electoral law reform in the past two legislative periods because they benefited the most from the current regulations.
Source: Stern
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