[EM] German parliament votes for military support

[Markus Schulze]

Dear participants,

the german constitution says that only when the parliament
rejects a vote of confidence the chancellor has the right
to ask the president to dissolve the parliament. The aim
of Schroeder's tactics was to provoke such a rejection and
then to have early elections in February 2002.

To my opinion, the best way to make this kind of tactics
unattractive is to introduce the Swedish option. The Swedish
option says that when the parliament is dissolved then the
new parliament doesn't get a new full term, it gets only the
rest of the regular term of the old parliament.

Markus Schulze