The CDU chairman Friedrich Merz has rejected the proposal from the traffic light coalition to improve the electoral law reform that has been passed and to enable list connections between the CDU and CSU.
“We feel it is downright encroaching that the coalition now wants to use electoral law to decide how the CDU and CSU should position themselves in federal elections. The proposal for a list connection is useless to solve the problem caused by the traffic light itself,” said the Union faction leader of “Welt am Sonntag”.
“CDU and CSU are two friendly but also independent parties who have decided to run in geographically different electoral areas and not to compete. It will stay that way, no matter what other political parties think of it, ”explained Merz.
The CSU only competes in Bavaria, the CDU only in the other federal states.
With the electoral law reform passed by the traffic light coalition against the protests of the opposition, the five percent clause will apply without exception from 2025: the so-called basic mandate clause will no longer apply.
So far, it has ensured that parties with the strength of their second vote result also entered the Bundestag if they were less than five percent but won at least three direct mandates. The Left Party benefited from this in 2021. Depending on the election result, the omission could also have consequences for the CSU.
A list connection is an alliance of several parties that stand for election together. The list connection is assigned a number of mandates according to its result, which are distributed internally according to the vote share of the respective party. (dpa)
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Source: Tagesspiegel
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