The 1,000 billion euros of debt adopted, Tuesday, March 18, by an outgoing Bundestag gathered in an extraordinary session, disturbed the parliamentary calendar across the Rhine. But the blue armchairs of the hemicycle were reorganized just in time to welcome the new cohort of deputies resulting from the legislative elections of February 23, who sit from Tuesday, March 25.
This new Bundestag, the 21ste Since the Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1949, has been tightened, with 630 deputies, against 733 during the last legislature, due to the reform of the electoral law adopted in 2024. It is also more conservative and more masculine. At 32.4 %, the proportion of women has declined since the legislative elections of 2021 (34.8 %), even if it is not a historic more.
This decline is partly the fact of the progress of more male formations-the extreme right (AFD), which will occupy a quarter of the seats in the lower chamber, and the conservatives (CDU/CSU)-coupled with the decline of the Greens and the Social Democrats (SPD), younger and more feminized. Among the Greens, women represent, in fact, 61 % of elected officials, and SPD, 42 %. Within AFD, however, less than one in eight is a woman, but “The party has only 10 % or 20 % of women”argued the deputy Beatrix von Storch, to explain the hostility of her training in the principle of quotas.
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Source: Lemonde