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Expert: Planned right to vote is "very bad proposal"

2021-10-27T13:09:01.847Z


Political scientist Joachim Behnke from Friedrichshafen cannot do anything good with the reform idea for the right to vote for the Greens, CDU and SPD. "This is a very bad proposal that will lead to a bloated state parliament, less grassroots democracy and a much larger number of purely professional politicians than we have so far," he criticized on Wednesday in an interview with the German press agency.


Political scientist Joachim Behnke from Friedrichshafen cannot do anything good with the reform idea for the right to vote for the Greens, CDU and SPD.

"This is a very bad proposal that will lead to a bloated state parliament, less grassroots democracy and a much larger number of purely professional politicians than we have so far," he criticized on Wednesday in an interview with the German press agency.

Friedrichshafen - Behnke assumes 200 or more MPs if the number of constituencies is not reduced.

The Greens, CDU and SPD agreed on a reform on Tuesday evening. According to their ideas, there should be a two-vote right to vote in Baden-Württemberg, similar to the federal government, so far everyone has one vote. Voters should then be able to vote their direct candidates in the constituency in the state parliament with the first vote. As in the general election, the second vote should go to one party.

Behnke, who teaches at Zeppelin University, said the new Bundestag, with its 736 members, is a daunting example of what happens with a two-vote right to vote. The reason for the increase are the so-called overhang mandates, the number of which is increasing because there are hardly any really dominant parties in the nationwide ratio. Surplus mandates arise when a party in a federal state wins more direct mandates than it is entitled to after the second vote result.

Behnke even suggests halving the number of constituencies that could then be represented by two candidates, so that each party in a constituency could run with one woman and one man.

This also increases the moral pressure on the parties.

Because the proportion of women in parliament will not surely increase through the reform alone, he says.

"So far, the Greens have had no problem getting women into the state parliament," said Behnke.

“It's a question of the party's culture.

And if you don't have the culture, you won't put women on the lists either. "

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The political expert is also concerned about the growing influence of the party headquarters: By filling almost every second mandate via the state list, the influence of the voters is decreasing, and more and more officials are moving into parliament.

"The new electoral law is in a way something like a motion of no confidence by the parties against their own voters," criticized Behnke.

"So we breed a caste of professional politicians who have no experience at a young age." Dpa

Source: merkur

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