The Effect of age and Pocket On Voting In Aging Germany!
Germany's electorate is aging and is shrinking. What will this mean for the German parliament in the post-Angela Merkel era? Germany has about 60 million voters to vote on 26 September. Compared to the last general election held four years ago, this number has come down by about 1.3 million and more than half of the voters are also above 50 years of age. The change is part of a wider demographic change in Germany, with more deaths than births continuing to occur in the country. Although migration has helped stabilize Germany's population, many of those migrants are not able to vote. As a result, Germany's voter base is aging and shrinking. An aging voter base As the number of older people in the population increases, the generational balance of power in elections also changes. In the 1987 national election in West Germany, 23 percent of voters were under the age of thirty and 26 percent of voters were under the age of sixty. For the 2021 ...