This would have at least two big advantages: Firstly, blockading whole reform bills would not be as easy as it is now, given a cohabitation scenario between Bundestag and Bundesrat. Secondly, politics would become more transparent: Voters in regional elections would not be expected to simultaneously decide on federal politics, which now is the case. In the recent past, regional elections have become more and more hypocritical because their formal quality (electing a regional parliament) and their factual quality (also influencing federal decision-making via the Bundesrat) were incongruent. By stopping this, the task of voting would become more easy, more transparent and, hence, more democratic.