Why is a candidate who moved away from Berlin still on the list? And why were postal voting documents sent twice? The repeat elections are due in Berlin in three weeks, and again the preparations went awry: In the Treptow-Köpenick district, postal voting documents were sent twice in 49 cases. A spokeswoman for the district said the reason was a software error. Affected citizens had drawn the Office's attention to the double dispatch. The ballot papers sent out were declared...
from Robert Rossmann, BerlinThe CDU and CSU are approaching the traffic light coalition in a dispute over a new electoral law to reduce the size of the Bundestag. This emerges from a so-called “lightning briefing” by the head of the Union faction to its MPs Süddeutsche Zeitung present. source site
The announcements could hardly be surpassed in terms of clarity. CSU boss Markus Söder condemned the traffic light coalition's draft law to reduce the Bundestag as "unconstitutional", CDU boss Friedrich Merz as "unacceptable". CSU General Secretary Martin Huber even accused the traffic light of "organized election fraud" that reminded him of "rogue states". And CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt said that a draft law that "so blatantly disregards the will of the voters" must "ultimately end up before the...
The traffic light coalition would like to reduce the size of the Bundestag with a capping model. The Christian Socialists are immediately reminded of "rogue states" - how absurd. source site
The traffic light coalition has agreed on a reform of the electoral law, with which the Bundestag is to be reduced to 598 MPs. There are currently 736 MPs. The factions of the SPD, Greens and FDP want to present a corresponding draft law this Monday. He lies the Süddeutsche Zeitung already before.In the past twenty years, the Bundestag has grown in size. This was due to the overhang and compensation mandates. Overhang mandates arise when a party wins more...
Party on the rise: The Greens, stronger than ever - and even bigger ambitionsWORLD source site
Federal Family Minister Lisa Paus has spoken out in favor of lowering the voting age to 16 for the Bundestag elections. In this way, the interests and needs of the younger generation would be "fundamentally taken into account" and "taken into account from the outset" in political decisions, the Greens politician told the newspapers of the Funke media group. "The voting age of 16 in the European elections is an important signal, but we shouldn't stop there," she said.Paus said...
Members of the Bundestag should sit for five years instead of four, the President of the Parliament demands. And she wants 16-year-olds to be able to vote in the future. As President of the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas wants to push ahead with some reform plans: she recently urged the traffic light coalition to finally downsize the Bundestag. In an interview with the German Press Agency, she now advocates extending the parliamentary term from four to five years. That would then...
According to a survey, the left would miss out on entering parliament in new elections. The Greens are still on the rise.The Left Party would currently miss entering parliament in a federal election. In the Sunday trend, which polling institute INSA collects for "Bild am Sonntag", the left comes to four percent this week, a drop of one percentage point compared to the previous week.The strongest force remains the Union with an unchanged 28 percent. The Social Democrats remain at...
comment by Boris HerrmanIt's been said over and over again that the left is in danger of splitting, but that's not entirely true. The secession of the so-called Wagenknecht camp would be less of a threat to the party than a liberation. At first glance, it would possibly result in the loss of parliamentary group status in the Bundestag. But it would offer the great - and perhaps last - chance to start a new left-wing project in time for...
