German Elections & Politics

[Ethelberth]

Interstingly Markus Söder is actually protestant.

[Ethelberth]

If Germany should change its electoral system, it should of course be in a more proportional direction, not less. The two main problems of contemporary German politics are related; the insistence on majority governments and cordon sanitaire against parties winning a larger and larger share of the votes. When the majority masochism is gone, it should be much easier for the established parties to cooperate with the parties currently kept out of influence. Certainly SPD-Greens should quite quickly be able to make arrangements with die Linke, and at some point the centre-right parties could hopefully do the same with AfD

Danish system with one MP voting for rest of the parliament would be also efficient.

[Ethelberth]

The party system of the European Parliament, in which Germany has a large fraction of seats, is naturally very strongly correlated with the party system of Germany.

That is recent development. Lengedarly, 1994-1999 Germans had MEPs in three caucuses, whereas even Luxembourg had more pluralistic delegation. Traditionally, the EP caucuses were based on in-fights within French right. Nowadays, Poland is  a new France.

[Ethelberth]

I think that the Intoxicated Party will reach seats in EP elections.

[Ethelberth]

Are the Republikaner still existent, or has AFD eaten its electoral space.

[Ethelberth]

For example, if a Dane comes to civilized world, he must be acclimated to idea, that he job of MP is to make political decisions, not sacrifice the wild boar in his local shrine every day. How fast would he integrate to world without shamanistic rituals performed by MPs.

[Ethelberth]

Number of constituencies has been reduced.

I wait parliament with 19 parties and about 5500 MPs.

[Ethelberth]

Number of constituencies has been reduced.

I wait parliament with 19 parties and about 5500 MPs.

Actually, if there were 19 parties in the Bundestag, there wouldn't probably be any overhang seats at all.

If one party gets everywhere slightly more votes than the rest of parties (and 300 direct seats) rest of parties were compensated with 300 seats for each party.

[Ethelberth]

Does somebody have maps about historical vote of Bayernparty. 

[Ethelberth]

The cradle of Greens getting finally direct seat for them (the Slavic agricultural seat in Eastern Hannover).

[Ethelberth]

The area has nuclear waste site in Gorleben. The so-called Wendland has list of Green politicians since 80ties, at least two MEPs , most recently Rebecca Harms.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgerinitiative_Umweltschutz_L%C3%BCchow-Dannenberg
 

[Ethelberth]

The municipality won by AFD was actually a labourer camp during war period.