Electoral reform: 650 instead of 598 seats in the Bundestag? This is how the talks between Ampel and Union on electoral law reform are going

No sooner had the traffic light parties presented their proposal for reforming electoral law than the Union broke away from its previous concept, trench electoral law, and presented a new idea.

Electoral reform: 650 instead of 598 seats in the Bundestag? This is how the talks between Ampel and Union on electoral law reform are going

No sooner had the traffic light parties presented their proposal for reforming electoral law than the Union broke away from its previous concept, trench electoral law, and presented a new idea. To the amazement of the SPD: "For us, it's a last-ditch panic if the Union now wants to cut ten additional constituencies," says Sebastian Hartmann from the SPD parliamentary group. The Union counters: "The traffic light proposal is unconstitutional," says Alexander Hoffmann from the CSU.

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