Looking at it from a distance, one might ask heretically whether the traffic light coalition wants to reduce the size of the Bundestag or the opposition with its voting rights. As a reminder, the traffic light parties have used all their power to push through a proposal that unilaterally favors the government. This is unprecedented in the history of our country.

Strong candidates from the constituencies should deliberately represent the interests and needs of their home regions in the Bundestag. If necessary, even against the line of their own parties. To do this, members of parliament need the tailwind of a direct mandate, which the traffic light coalition has now deliberately undermined and mutilated beyond recognition. The unique synthesis of proportional representation and majority voting has been ended with a stroke of the pen.

It's about maintaining power for the traffic light coalition

However, this reform was by no means solely about reducing the size of the Bundestag, but primarily about maintaining the coalition's hold on power. In order to secure its majority in the long term, the coalition deliberately disadvantaged opposition parties through the electoral law.

The abolition of the basic mandate clause could lead to the absurd situation where a party wins all the direct mandates in a federal state but is still not represented in parliament. Millions of citizens would thus have no direct representation in Berlin.

This means that representatives who have represented their home constituencies in the Bundestag for years would not be elected to parliament, while Green Party candidates without local roots who achieve poor personal results would be. This is not fair, nor is it something that can be explained to voters. The disconnect between representatives and voters is growing. Green-woke city dwellers are setting the tone and literally leaving the flat countryside behind.

The new electoral law also promotes a new form of conformity. Strong personalities and free thinkers no longer have a chance of being elected to parliament. Opportunistic apparatchiks are rewarded with good places on the state lists and set the tone in parliament. We really cannot want that.

The Union must stop the traffic light coalition's villainous act

Therefore, the Union must now put a stop to this villainous act against our country's political culture. With the signatures of the CDU and CSU members of parliament, the constitutional complaint is now in place. The judges at the Federal Constitutional Court are now called upon to correct the politically motivated electoral law of the traffic light coalition.