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> constitutional ammendent

They don't have the necessary majority to make constitutional changes without the CDU, I think. And the CDU is why we can't have nice things.

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Which is why it's weird that they keep discussing lowering the voting age to 16. Also impossible without the conservatives, AFAIK.

That is a good example of a misdirection play, a polarizing discussion point that political opponents get hung up on, which you never ever intended to actually pass, and you'll happily drop it later, but it helped relieve political pressure from other potential hot topics. We see typical conservative tactics being employed against the conservative base :)

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