Of course they do.. I sincerely hope the CDU* doesn't get that through before the election and that they also end up in the opposition and never get to "govern" again.
*The C stands for Christianity, but it might just as well stand for Corruption. Would be a lot more accurate too.
In case anyone wants a summary (in german) of the crimes and failures that happenend during the last years, I compiled a website a couple of weeks ago:
That's a cool website! I have played with the idea of building something like this. A sort of blacklist for members of parliament for obvious unpunished corruption and crimes. With rules about how to get on and off of it etc.
But the case of Andreas Scheuer let's me doubt the effectiveness of such a thing: Everybody knows about the 500 million € he wasted, but since the party is just not affected by it in polls, it does not care and nothing happens.
It would be nice to have this for all parties in power, and in machine-readable format.
To make use of it for further analysis, some meta-data and normalisation would be helpful, e.g. whether someone received media allegations about corruption versus someone was actually fined.
The result could be used by journalists to generate infographics, and to select and slice-and-dice data for better reporting.
At the moment, reporting is mostly on single incidents; only occasionally, at the end of articles, related incidents are mentioned. Systemic issues (e.g. regular political corruption in a party) require more long-term data gathering, which journalists rarely take the time for, and such a data-set could be very useful background material for it.
*The C stands for Christianity, but it might just as well stand for Corruption. Would be a lot more accurate too.