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Voting reform passes + AfD ahead of Greens + award-winning play 'cancelled'

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Jörg Luyken
Mar 20, 2023
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Good morning,

  • It seems crazy to me that changing the voting system doesn’t require a two thirds majority in the Bundestag. All that is needed to alter the voting rules is a simple majority, meaning that every new government could in theory pass a voting reform that would skew future elections in their favour. The ‘traffic light’ government on Friday pass…

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