The South Schleswig Holstein Electoral Association – a party of Danish and Frisian minorities – can expect to win a seat in the Bundestag, the German parliament, reports ARD.
Stefan Seidler, SSW’s leading candidate, would be nominated to sit there, and he wants to “offer Scandinavian solutions in Berlin and thus strengthen the region”, according to the German newspaper Der Nordschleswiger.
Former councilor
Former member of the Flensburg City Council (where he was born), he was a Radical candidate in the European Parliament elections before becoming national chairman of the SSW in 1998.
The party is expected to win the seat if 50,000 votes are obtained. If SSW manages to get another mandate, it would logically be taken by the other name on the list, Maylis Rossberg.
Permanent presence in local institutions
The last time the party fought for a national election was in 1961, when its ideology was still in its infancy. At that time, it wanted to link the territories north of the eider to the Kingdom of Denmark.
Nevertheless, SSW has managed to secure a presence in the regional chamber for over 60 years. This lifetime is due to the special status of the party’s members as representatives of local minorities – which means that it is not affected by a minimum of 5 percent of the voting requirement.
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Danish pharmaceutical company tests migrants on the Greek island
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