The Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and the Liberal Democratic Party (FDP) have reached an agreement to remove 106 seats from the Bundestag, the Lower House of the German Parliament, passing from 736 to 630 the number of deputies. This change will be effective after the 2025 general elections.
Coalition sources, quoted by DPA, have informed that this final agreement modifies the first draft of the reform presented at the end of January and that contemplated the reduction to 598 seats.
This proposal will be voted on in the German Parliament on Thursday or Friday of this week and is expected to go ahead with the votes of the government parties.
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The Bundestag was expanded to 736 seats after the 2021 general election. This was the highest figure so far and made up for compensation for avoid “orphan constituencies” in which a first candidate is not directly elected by direct vote.
It must be remembered that in the elections in Germany, a party list is also voted for, with which the final result is a mixture of direct election of candidates and through lists of candidates, respecting the proportionality of the vote at the national level.
The number of constituencies will remain at 299, but 331 mandates will be assigned through the lists of the federal states, instead of the 299 originally planned.
The aim is to reduce to a minimum the number of deputies who win a constituency with the first vote and fail to enter the Bundestag.
