The traffic light coalition is willing to talk about the details of its previous plan on the way to a changed electoral law, but is sticking to the plan of having passed a new electoral law by the end of the year.
This should ensure an upper limit of 598 MPs in the Bundestag, be based on the result of the second vote and abolish overhang and compensation mandates.
Eckhart Lohse
Head of the parliamentary editorial office in Berlin.
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The factions of the SPD, Greens and FDP are flexible about the idea of introducing a so-called substitute vote, with the help of which the allocation of a constituency should be regulated if the candidate with the most first votes does not get the constituency assigned because his party because of its second vote result this circle is no longer entitled.
The representatives of the traffic light groups in the electoral law commission had proposed this in order to make the Bundestag smaller again in the future.
In a draft resolution by the traffic light groups, which is available to the FAZ, it says that they are “open to the introduction of a substitute vote”, but want to “continue to examine such a model as a basis for further negotiations for its practicability and constitutionality,
consider other models and achieve representation of all constituencies, taking into account comprehensibility and acceptance”.
This is how you want to accommodate the Union and the Left Party.
The draft resolution is to be decided by the traffic light groups on Tuesday, and the electoral law commission will meet for the last time before the summer break on Thursday.
At the traffic light, you don't expect that a decision about a new right to vote will be made.
Rather, further consultation should take place over the summer, and a draft law could then be available in September.