State Constitutional Court confirms minimum parliamentary group size. Organizing into parliamentary groups makes the work of representatives in local parliaments easier.
Since June 2023, a parliamentary group in municipal and city councils or district councils with 31 or more members must have at least three representatives. The state parliamentary groups of the FDP and SSW had sued against the new regulation. The plaintiffs saw the tightening as an unreasonable disadvantage to their ability to participate in politics, for example in committees (LVerfG 4/23)