Piggyback
The piggyback is a tactic a small party , one in collaboration with a larger party electoral threshold to get around. In the Federal Republic of Germany , despite the five percent hurdle , entry into a parliament is possible by using the basic mandate clause .
The basic mandate clause is in § 6 III 1, Alt. 2 BWahlG standardized. According to this, a party that has failed the five percent hurdle can still send members to the Bundestag based on their second vote result if they were able to win the direct mandate in at least three constituencies . It is thus possible for large parties to forego their direct candidates in some constituencies and to submit an election recommendation in favor of a small party that cannot reach the five percent threshold. If this succeeds in at least three constituencies, the small party moves into the Bundestag, so its second votes are not "lost".
history
The piggyback system played a role in the federal elections in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1953 and 1957 . In 1953 and 1957, the CDU succeeded in getting the “small” DP to move into the Bundestag. The SPD did not succeed in this in 1957 with the Federal Union .
Individual evidence
- ↑ From election to election. Election posters in the mirror of their time - from 1949 to 2002 ( Memento from May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: Focus on the Bundestag. Edition 06/2005