Professor claims 77 German MEPs have already been elected

Over 70% of German MEPs have already been elected, even before election day, according to one German Professor.

When German voters go to the ballot box on Sunday, 77 of 99 German MEPs will already be sure of their place in the European Parliament, according to Hans Herbert von Arnim.

Mr von Armin, a professor of public law at the Postgraduate School of Administrative Sciences in the German town of Speyer, has conducted a study into the system of party lists, which he claims goes...