Something that hasn’t been mentioned yet: this entire move completely fucks small parties in favor of the big one seen here. The German communist party (DKP) can’t participate at all in this election because they would need to register about 2000 signatures per district to even be allowed to run in those districts. And to add to that, the German system is designed in such a way, that parties get paid by their votes. Meaning that small parties would now need to spend a lot of money without any chance to crowdfund beforehand, and wouldn’t even get that back afterward. This entire move is just a way for the capitalists to realign their priorities with the big parties and make sure, that nothing stands in the way between their grab for even more power in the next years. For anyone who is interested in reading more about this, there is this really good article from the newspaper of the DKP (it’s in German, but you could just translate it using Google Translator or something): https://www.unsere-zeit.de/wem-vertraut-das-kapital-4798734/