"Voting is not always effective" is true especially in Bavaria, where the CSU has perfected populism to the point that they have managed to stay in power basically since the current Federal Republic of Germany exists (with a brief interruption from 1954 to 1957) - if they don't get more than 50% of the Landtag seats, they can pick and choose their coalition partner, and they have already excluded a coalition with the Green party, because other parties (FDP, Freie Wähler) are more pliant.
