After the federal election: ++ “The end of the people’s parties is sealed” ++

02:28 am

Half a dozen lawsuits against the federal election

About a week after the general election, the Federal Constitutional Court has received half a dozen complaints against the vote. “There were six constitutional complaints and two urgent motions for the federal election,” said a spokeswoman for the court. This is what the editorial network Germany reports. There are also “a total of eleven constitutional complaints and three urgent motions that are directed against individual regulations or against the right to vote in general”.

In the so-called general register there are finally “four more procedures for the right to vote and three procedures for the Bundestag election”. One of the numerous lawsuits against the new electoral law was filed by the FDP, the Left and the Greens. They are of the opinion that the reform adopted by the new Bundestag in October 2020 does not achieve the goal of reducing the number of Bundestag seats for future legislative periods. However, the court has not yet decided on the main issue.

According to the court, it is still unclear when a judgment will be made. The court had previously rejected an urgent motion by the opposition parties, according to which the new electoral law should not be applied in this Bundestag election.

1:55 am

Lauterbach expects a traffic light coalition

The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach expects a government coalition made up of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP. “I am firmly convinced that we will get a traffic light alliance,” said Lauterbach on “Bild TV”. This is a very good alliance: “Modern social policy of the SPD, aggressive environmental policy of the Greens, digitization and freedom rights of the FDP.” In his opinion, however, a possible coalition of the CDU / CSU, the Greens and the FDP would not be stable for long.

1:47 am

DIW boss calls for 500 billion funds for climate and digitization

The head of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Marcel Fratzscher, thinks it is feasible to invest billions of the state in climate protection and digitization without violating the debt brake. He advocates the creation of a one-off reserve of around 500 billion euros for future investments, from which the expenses for climate protection and digitization could be paid in the next ten years, the DIW boss told the editorial network Germany. For the normal household, the brake should then apply again from 2023 or 2024.

Fratzscher was optimistic about the chances of an agreement between the Greens and the FDP. The FDP wants to let the market do everything, the Greens rely on a strong state that sets strict framework conditions and invests. “Only: These are not contradictions, even if it looks like it at first glance. They are two sides of the same coin,” emphasized the DIW boss. “Both belong in the government program – in a clever balance.” Fratzscher expects difficult negotiations with the SPD or the Union, for example on the question of bringing forward the coal phase-out to 2030. This also applies to the necessary reforms of the social systems.

1:33 am

Head of the Central Office for Political Education: End of the popular parties

From the point of view of the President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Thomas Krüger, the era of popular parties is foreseeably over. “The federal election marks a turning point in post-war history,” he told the editorial network in Germany. “Because the end of the people’s parties is sealed.”

In the election a week ago, the SPD had won, but only with 25.7 percent. The union had fallen to 24.1 percent. By 2005, both people’s parties had always achieved around 30 percent or much more. After that, the SPD had already sunk to the 20-degree mark, and now the Union has also collapsed. From Krüger’s point of view, it could also be “a gain if a broader party system emerges”.

Since the AfD moved into the Bundestag in 2017, the parliament has seven parties. With the arrival of the Südschleswigschen Voters’ Association (SSW) with one MP, eight parties are now represented in the Bundestag

1:26 am

Survey: Steinmeier wants to keep the majority as Federal President

70 percent of the citizens are in favor of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier staying for a second term. This emerges from the results of a Forsa survey that is available to the “RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland”. Even three quarters of the population are satisfied with his work – those over 60, at 80 percent, even more than the younger ones, the West Germans (76 percent) more clearly than the East Germans (68 percent). First and foremost, supporters of social democracy rate his work 88 percent positively. Steinmeier’s first term ends in February 2022.

10/3/2021 • 12:47 am

Röttgen: Laschet’s resignation would not have been right

The CDU politician Norbert Röttgen defended the fact that the Union, with its defeated candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet, is exploring a coalition with the Greens and the FDP. In the ARD he said no Anne Will On Sunday evening, the question of whether Laschet should not have resigned immediately after the Union’s defeat in the Bundestag election last Sunday. “That would have been wrong,” said Röttgen, who is considered one of those who want to overthrow Laschet in order to move into the center of power in the Union.

Resigning would have been wrong because it was not yet clear who could form a government – the SPD, Greens and FDP in a traffic light coalition or the union with the Greens and FDP in a so-called Jamaica alliance. “If that is not the case, the Union is also obliged to hold talks,” explained Röttgen, adding, referring to the party elections, “with the staff who were elected.”

Röttgen only answered Will’s question when the moderator followed up for the third time, after he had always evaded before. Previously, in interviews, he had called for the Union to be realigned in terms of content and personnel, which was understood as an attack on Laschet.