>>We over here have a choice of several parties that we elect into Bundestag. The choice is Scylla or Charybdis. And if you do not vote, the total goes done, abstention while voting on will be magically counted. The only way to say no is to paint the ballot, this is neither a vote nor abstention and your vote will go to nobody, it will effectively reduce everybody's count.
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>You left out that parties get "reimbursed" for their election effort / cost according to the percentage of votes they receive. Everywhere else abstention or uncountable votes will still be "counted" to fill the big bucket to reimburse the party efforts.

The circus must be paid for. Direct by the rich as in the US, indirect as in Germany, stealing from the majority it's all the time.

>>And then we get those coalition governments. Horse-trading all days long.
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>Yupp, but you probably heard of TFGs "only on the first day"
>which hit the news a bit to be forgotten tomorrow

Transfusionsgesetz? Tools for Gents?
And you know how the news et al is named over here ... Being DLF user long part of the the day, I recognize the once-only news very well. But what do I complain. All is as expected. Or school-knowledge, for that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯