"Let's imagine if two opposition parties in Hungary or Poland were simply liquidated like this. They would immediately talk about a cold coup d'état, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in particular would have to face immediate punishment, which would be imposed by Ursula von der Leyen herself, all EU support would be withdrawn immediately, and Hungary would have to face expulsion from the EU. In Germany, this goes smoothly," writes a well-known publicist in connection with the reform of the German electoral law.
Probably, no federal government has abused its narrow parliamentary majority so impudently and unscrupulously as the German Social Democratic-Liberal-Green government coalition - at least that's what the famous publicist and journalist Kurt Zach V4na.com . In Germany, the left-wing government majority quickly changed the electoral law that had been in effect since 1949. The trick was that the reform was not officially submitted by the government, but by the three coalition factions. As a result, the proposal bypassed both the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice, as well as the mandatory consultation with the provinces, as the German constitution requires them only for government proposals.
Zach believes that the reform of the Voting Rights Act breaks with the traditional consensus of the federal republic that the system can only be changed by broad, cross-campus agreement.
He added that the goal of the reform is more to consolidate the left-wing majority and potentially kick some of the opposition out of parliament - regardless of what the voters want. The reform also lowers the minimum voting age to 16. The government's aim is to increase the electoral district with additional left-wing and green voters with the stroke of a pen - writes the well-known journalist, who says that many young people come out of school having been taught everything on an ideological basis, so they are more likely to vote for left-wing parties.
The left-wing coalition is also continuing the project of gaining new voters in other areas, for example by facilitating the importation and accelerated naturalization of additional migrant clientele, to which SPD Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock devote themselves with great devotion, notes Kurt Zach. As he put it:
"The essence of this transformation is the destruction of the economically independent entrepreneurial middle class and the bourgeois middle class by creating an all-pervasive "climate protection" planned economy: banning safe and affordable energy supply, destroying the natural landscapes that have developed over the centuries, expropriating property owners, imposing unfeasible renovation requirements and heating with prohibitions. Meanwhile, even the smallest settlement and village communities are disintegrating with the forced admission of migrants from foreign cultures"
- summed up the government's work in the past period.
Meanwhile, the Baden-Württemberg Christian Democratic Union (CDU) called the parliamentary adoption of the reform a "black day for democracy". "The new electoral law ensures that directly elected representatives will not be able to get seats in the Bundestag in the future. This is fundamentally wrong and a fraud against the voters," the provincial CDU believes.
The necessary reduction in the number of members of the German Bundestag has been under discussion for years, but the ruling parties' solution has outraged many. The face of the federal republic will change when the law enters into force for the 2025 Bundestag elections, said publicist Roland Tichy , who says that this is a brutal attack on democracy, and the SPD knows it well. This is a law to liquidate the Christian Social Union (CSU) and thereby weaken the civil opposition, since without the CSU's vote share, the joint parliamentary faction of the CDU-CSU will shrink to a miserable 22.5 percent. Referring to the double standard, he wrote in an opinion piece:
"Let's imagine if two opposition parties in Hungary or Poland were simply liquidated in this way. They would immediately talk about a cold coup d'état, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in particular would have to face immediate punishment, which would be imposed by Ursula von der Leyen herself, all EU support would be withdrawn immediately, and Hungary would have to face expulsion from the EU".
"In Germany, it goes smoothly," he continued. The opposition parties appealed to the Constitutional Court, "but as is well known, even this court is not really independent, the judges are actually appointed by the leaders of the parties based on the proportional representation of the parties. It has been perverted into a court of party politics for a long time, and lately its judgments have also been shaped like this: in accordance with the political majority situation," he noted sarcastically, finally summing up as follows:
“Public debt, inflation, burdening ordinary citizens with obligations and contributions, more and more taxes, the destruction of the economic infrastructure: this is the socialist program of nationalization and expropriation, which is taking place before everyone's eyes“.
Source: V4na.com
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