Lawmakers in Germany approved electoral reforms that would reduce the size of the country's increasingly bloated parliament, but two opposition parties were vehemently critical and the plan is expected to face a court challenge.
FILE - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 15, 2021. German lawmakers on Friday approved a reform of the country's voting system that would reduce the size of the increasingly bloated parliament, but two opposition parties were vehemently critical and the plan is likely to face a court challenge.
Parliament’s lower house, or Bundestag, currently has a record 736 members. The changes approved on a 400-261 vote with 23 abstentions would reduce that number to 630.
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