The chancellor did WHAT?

[ridicully]

Part of my mind is completely freaked out about the new date for the elections. It's the part of my mind that equals any changes to the established democratic process with the Weimar Republic.
The other part is horrified that it has to decide who to vote for in four months rather than a year and four months.

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[ridicully]

I can sort of understand his reasoning. After the last loss of the SPD in Nordrheinwesfalen, there is no longer any Land that is reigned (sounds wrong in this context, can't think of a better one) by the same coalition that reigns the country as a whole. The numbers in the Bundesrat don't look good for them either.
Saying that apparently the people don't want them to reign any longer and we should have elections a year early is a logical step.
I have no idea what the Grundgesetz says, but I know it's something that makes me automatically think of the 1920s and Hindenburg. If I remember correctly disolving (another of these strange word choices) the government was a regular occurence during this time.

Tagesschau Spiegel are full of articles about it at the moment.