The German coalition government has voted through an electoral reform plan that gets reported in very understated terms - it is not just about reduction of the German Bundestag, but essentially the end of the mixed member system in Germany.

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sueddeutsche.de/politik/wahlre… Germany kind of invented the idea of the mixed member system (which in Germany is known as "personalisierte Verhaeltniswahl" = personalised proportional representation), very much aided and abetted by the British who got them to pioneer it in parts they occupied after 1945.

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