The chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Manuel Hagel, has brought the plans of the traffic light parliamentary groups in the federal government to reform the electoral law close to AfD ideas – and described them as extremely unfair for Germany’s south.
“All in all, the proposal is very reminiscent of an AfD proposal from the last legislature. It is half-baked and extremely unfair, especially for the south. The result would be 25 fewer members of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg and thus a loss of proximity to the citizen and less influence in Berlin,” said Hagel of the Bayern media group (Passauer Neue Presse, Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Donaukurier).
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The municipalities were the first to suffer from less influence in Berlin. “This plan only knows losers. It doesn’t work that way. There is an urgent need for adjustments here,” said Hagel. The right to vote must be legally impeccable, fair, understandable and communicable. Anything else would be fatal and would lead to a great lack of understanding among voters. I also doubt that this principle would even be constitutional.”
The traffic light plan, the key points of which are to be discussed this week, envisages the deletion of all overhang and equalization mandates. This means that the winners of constituencies would no longer automatically be elected to the Bundestag. Election winners with weak results might lose out.
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