Comment Re:German results (Score 1) 674
Sadly, we germans somehow think it's a good idea to only allow parties who get >=5% of the votes into our (or the european) parliaments. Might be because of our history (...)
We actually have the same rule in Poland, but as far as I remember the reasoning behind it was that parliament becomes less effective with more parties involved. Just check out what happened the last time the election threshold wasn't in place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_parliamentary_election,_1991