Germany held an election for the lower house of its Parliament, the Bundestag, on September 22. This Guardian article gives the results, which are still being tallied. So far the only parties that will be represented in the Bundestag seem to be the Christian Democrats and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Party; the Social Democratic Party; the Left Party (Linke in German); and the Greens.
A new party called Alternative for Germany seems to be getting 4.7% of the vote, not quite enough to be represented in the Bundestag. This party is not against the European Union but is desires that Germany cease using the Euro. The Free Democrats are also getting 4.7%, below the needed 5%.
The most likely outcome is a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Party, the Christian Social Party, and the Social Democratic Party; although other coalition combinations are possible.
1. Will the 5 percent quota prove FATAL to the Germany regime ??? [circa 15 percent of German voters elected no body]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_2013
3. BBC story —
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24203909
4. 100 percent P.R. NOW.
5. Abolish all super dangerous parliamentary systems.
Separate nonpartisan elections of all elected executive and judicial officers.
6. What lunatic eye doctor is doing the ReCaptcha stuff ??? — to get more business ???
The anti-Euro party is not called “Anti-Euro Party.” It’s called “Alternative für Deutschland” (Alternative for Germany).
Thank you. I corrected the post.
AFD is “Alternative for Germany”
@2 I feel like you need some threshold of votes in proportional representation, even if it’s rather low, because there are situations where it becomes unclear which party or parties (or candidate associations) should receive “overhang” votes, after you have allocated most of the seats by a certain percentage. For instance, 4 large parties and several minor parties contest an election for 20 seats. 2 parties get 30% each, one gets 25.5%, another gets 10.5%, and 8 small parties get about .5% each. One would reason that the parties at 30% should get 6 seats each, the 2nd place party 5, and 3rd place 2. Well that leaves one more seat, what do you do with it? At least with a threshold it’s easier to set up clear rules about what to do with the last seats assigned. Germany’s is rather high though. 1 or 2% would be more appropriate.
*Correction, 3rd place party 5 and 4th place party 2
The Social Democrats and Greens ruled out a coalition with Die Linke before the election took place, so the only two options on the table are a CDU-CSU coalition with either the SDP or Greens.