Translated from German with an LLM (Claude). The German original is authoritative.
Here are all the demands from my articles at a glance. The reasoning and the figures can be found in the linked article.
Electoral law
The Bundestag should abolish the five percent threshold so that every vote counts equally (reasoning):
- The five percent threshold is abolished, and with it the basic mandate clause and the special rule for the SSW.
- Seats are allocated using the largest remainder method (Hare/Niemeyer).
- The majority clause is abolished.
Two safeguards against fragmentation are recommended:
- Every party that stands for election needs at least 5,000 members, confirmed by an auditor.
- No more than 1 million valid votes ever remain without a seat in parliament, otherwise parliament grows by individual seats.
The same rules for all parties are also desirable:
- Every party that stands submits one list for all of Germany instead of state lists, including the CSU, the CDU and regional parties.
- The order on the ballot paper is based on the number of members nationwide.