"Political sham": FDP, the Left and the Greens are taking action before the Federal Constitutional Court over electoral reform

After the Union and the SPD agreed on a new right to vote in October, three opposition parties are now taking it to court.

The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe must now decide.

• Because the Bundestag is too big, an electoral reform is urgently needed.

• The amendment of the grand coalition meets with rejection from the FDP, the Greens and the left.

• The three opposition parties have announced that they will go to the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe.

Berlin - 709

currently sit in the

.

More than ever before.

But that leads to a problem: the

is too big!

All politicians - regardless of which party they belong to - agree on this.

A reform of the

is difficult.

In October, the grand coalition finally found a solution: three

will no longer be offset in future.

The problem: The

, the

and the

now complaining against the reform

!

It is a "political sham", the law is "terribly bad", say opposition politicians.

The only way out for the

, the

and the

is to go to the

.

His job now is to find a solution to a tricky question.

Because the goal is still the same for all parties: to streamline the

.

New electoral law “political sham”: three opposition parties pull before the Federal Court of Justice

FDP

parliamentary director Marco Buschmann announced the move to Karlsruhe on Friday (November 27th).

A so-called abstract control of norms is being attempted because the amendment "objectively does not" fulfill its purpose of

preventing

further enlargement of the

.

It threatens to "

grow

even after the next

and thus lose its functionality and reputation," said Buschmann.

“If #voting is unclear, it can divide society.

We consider these shortcomings so serious that they violate the Constitution.

That is why we want to carry out a norm control before the Federal Constitutional Court! ”@MarcoBuschmann #XXLBundestag pic.twitter.com/djpZofh29g

- Free Democrats Group (@fdpbt) November 27, 2020

The

actually provides for

598 parliamentarians.

Currently there are just those 709. Without changing the

, the 800th mark could be cracked for the first time in the 2021 federal election.

The sudden increase has

to do

with the so-called

.

These arise when a party

receives more direct mandates for the first votes

in the election to the

than it is entitled to seats based on the number of second votes.

The respective party can therefore send more members to parliament than the share of the second votes actually promises.

The Federal Court of Justice should now decide - the FDP, the Greens and the Left are going to Karlsruhe

The reform now decided by the Union and SPD is intended to

stop

the increasing number of

, but not enough, as the

, the

and the

think

.

The

-Rechtsexperte Friedrich Straetmanns said the election law change was "constitutionally untenable" and a "political sham" because they are not for reducing the

is suitable.

In addition, Straetmanns accused the Union of wanting to gain an advantage with the reform.

We consider the #electoral reform of the Union and the SPD to be unconstitutional because not every vote is worth the same.

This hardly makes the Bundestag any smaller either.

We will therefore apply for an abstract norm review with @Linksfraktion and @fdpbt.

@BriHasselmann

- Andreas Kappler (@GruenSsprecher) November 27, 2020

The proposal by the Union and the SPD provides that three

will no longer be compensated for in the future.

According to current surveys by the CDU / CSU, this would bring advantages.

In addition, further

to be offset to a limited extent with list mandates from the same party in other federal states.

Britta Haßelmann, parliamentary manager of the

parliamentary

group, therefore described the new electoral law as "terribly bad".

It is "a sham reform" that does not serve its purpose.

Whether this is the case must now be decided by the

in Karlsruhe.

He has the next word in the dispute over a new

.