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Bundestag election: return after decades - mini-party will probably make it into the Bundestag

2021-09-28T23:05:53.368Z


The Südschleswigsche Voters' Association will probably win one of the 730 seats in the Bundestag - despite missing the five percent hurdle.


The Südschleswigsche Voters' Association will probably win one of the 730 seats in the Bundestag - despite missing the five percent hurdle.

Flensburg - The Bundestag will be bigger than before, that was clear even before the first election forecasts and projections - the reason for this is the complex German electoral law with its overhang and compensation mandates.

According to ARD projections, even more seems possible now: the return of a party that last held a mandate in 1949.

The German Bundestag would then have eight parties in the new legislative period.

Bundestag election 2021: Südschleswigscher electoral association according to the first forecast in the Bundestag

The South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW) campaigned in the federal election in 2021 in northern Schleswig-Holstein - this was last in 1961.

At that time, the association decided not to participate in a federal election until further notice, the results were too low, the chances of a seat in the Bundestag too bad.

Until now.

Moving into parliament is possible because the SSW would be granted the legal status of a party belonging to a national minority in July by the federal electoral committee.

This means that the five percent hurdle no longer applies to the association, neither in state parliament nor in federal parliamentary elections.

In order to enter the Bundestag, the SSW only has to win enough votes that it is entitled to a seat according to the calculation process.

According to ARD projections, this seems to be the case.

Accordingly, the non-attached MP Stefan Seidler from Flensburg - a representative of the Danish minority - was able to get one of the 730 seats.

He would be the second member of the Bundestag in the history of the minority party - only Hermann Clausen succeeded in this in 1949.

SSW: Danish minority and national Frisians in the Bundestag - what is in the election program?

The SSW wants to represent the interests of the Danish minority and national Frisians in the Bundestag. In addition, the association is also committed to (political) equality between the sexes and “LGBTI * people”. In its election manifesto, the association calls for greater federal involvement in minority politics as well as better German-Danish cooperation "in order to create growth and new jobs in Schleswig-Holstein." Faster implementation of climate and environmental protection as well as an expansion of the transport infrastructure and digitization in the northern federal state.

In terms of social policy, the association is based on the Scandinavian model of a solidarity welfare state.

The demands include, among other things, an increase in the minimum wage to 13 euros per hour, a curb on temporary work and work contracts, and the introduction of citizens' insurance.

On Twitter, the association responded enthusiastically to the very first ARD forecast in the early evening: "Goosebumps."

(Leb / dpa)

Source: merkur

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