The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Suffrage lawsuit by the FDP, the Left and the Greens - "sham package" with overhang mandates

2021-02-01T14:05:21.555Z


The FDP, the Left and the Greens are taking legal action before the Federal Constitutional Court. The new electoral law is to be stopped before the general election.


The FDP, the Left and the Greens are taking legal action before the Federal Constitutional Court.

The new electoral law is to be stopped before the general election.

Berlin - The

three opposition factions FDP, Left and Greens

filed a complaint

with the

Federal Constitutional Court

on February 1st

to stop

the new 

right to vote

.

The new regulation was decided in October.

The FDP parliamentary director Marco Buschmann explained the background to the lawsuit: The grand coalition is practicing “political self-service” with the law.

The three political groups also applied for

temporary legal protection

.

When Karlsruhe will decide is still open.

The FDP, the Left and the Greens see the Union benefit from voting rights

At the

center of the opposition criticism

is the regulation contained in the law that

three overhang seats will not be compensated in future

.

The

Union

in particular will

benefit from this

, complain the FDP, the Left and the Greens.

The law also creates no legal clarity, said the Green Parliamentary Secretary Britta Haßelmann.

“Such an

arbitrariness

must not be approved.” In addition, the three parliamentary groups fear that the new regulation will in no way

serve

the

goal of downsizing parliament

.

In this respect, the law is a "proverbial sham," said the Left MP Friedrich Straetmanns.

With the

new law

, further

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

.

The aim of the reform is to avoid excessive enlargement of the Bundestag through overhang and equalization mandates.

For future elections from 2024 onwards, the number of constituencies is

to be reduced from 299 to 280

, which should reduce the number of overhang seats.

These arise when a party receives more direct mandates than it would be entitled to based on its second share of the vote.

Suffrage lawsuit by the FDP, the Left and the Greens - decision before the federal election?

The three opposition factions had

already presented their own draft reform last year

, but were unable to prevail against the governing

parties

.

The FDP, the Left and the Greens now hope that the Federal Constitutional Court will

decide on the lawsuit

before the general election on September 26th

.

The representative of the three parliamentary groups, Sophie Schönberger, pointed out that the disputed regulation was not about the election itself, but about the subsequent

allocation of mandates

.

Therefore, the court could make a decision relatively shortly before the election on September 26th.

Should Karlsruhe overturn the new electoral law, the old regulation would apply again until a new one is decided.

(dpa / jh)

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2021-02-01

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-12T04:26:17.914Z
News/Politics 2024-02-12T02:53:34.825Z
News/Politics 2024-03-14T13:05:45.775Z
News/Politics 2024-02-11T19:43:57.715Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.