German top court gives way to complaint on voting system
According to this morning’s judgment by Germany’s top constitutional lawyers, the German voting system infringes the German constitution (“Grundgesetz”). This verdict follows the constitutional complaint by our partner organization “Mehr Demokratie” and “wahlrecht.de” who had filed a lawsuit against Germany’s federal electoral system in December last year. The two organizations had argued that overhang mandates (“Überhangmandate”) and the negative weight of votes (“negatives Stimmrecht”) created by Germany’s voting system distorted fair, transparent and equal elections as stipulated in Germany’s constitution (“Grundgesetz”).