From today there are still 97 days until the general election on December 26th.
This Monday is also an important date for all parties that are not yet part of a state parliament or the Bundestag:
Erding - The deadline for naming a direct candidate ends at 6 p.m.
In the constituency of Erding-Ebersberg, nine applicants are running for one of the seats in Berlin.
After all: voters in the districts of Erding-Ebersberg can choose from almost as many men (five) as women (four).
The imbalance in the origin of the applicants is greater: seven come from the Ebersberg district, only two from the Erdinger Land.
Except for the incumbent member of the Bundestag Andreas Lenz (CSU) from Frauenneuharting, it is the first candidacy for everyone.
For the first time, the Free Voters are sending one of their ranks into the election campaign, and this year the party will run nationwide.
In addition to Lenz, there will also be Magdalena Wagner (SPD) from Egmating, Christoph Lochmüller (Greens) from Hohenlinden, Birgit Obermaier (FW) from Pastetten, Marc Salih (FDP) from Poing, Peter Junker (AfD) from Finsing, Tobias Boegelein (Left) from Bruck, Charlotte Schmid (ÖDP) from Poing and Simone Binder (Bayernpartei) from Grafing.
What many no longer know: In the electoral term that is coming to an end, the constituency of Erding itself would have been represented by two members - in addition to Lenz, the financial politician Ewald Schurer (SPD) from Ebersberg, who had again entered the Bundestag via the SPD state list.
But he died completely unexpectedly in December 2017, a few weeks after the election.
In the election four years ago, Lenz had the most votes in all municipalities in both districts.
In the end it came to 48.2 percent.
Schurer had 14.9 percent united.
The other candidates from back then: Brigitte Fischbacher (AfD / 10.3%), Ami Lanzinger (Greens / 10.2%), Peter Alexander Pernsteiner (FDP / 7.3%), Lukas Schmid (Left / 3.4%) , Christina Treffler (ÖDP / 2.7%) and Andreas Zimmer (Bayernpartei / 2.4%).
The applicants for the later renewed grand coalition, Lenz and Schurer, had fared better than their parties. In the second vote, the CSU got 39.1 percent, the SPD 12.3. The other party results: FDP: 11.9%, AfD: 11.9%, Greens: 10.9% and Left: 5.1%.
This is the rest of the timetable: On Friday, July 9th, the federal electoral committee will meet and announce the parties that will be allowed to vote. Four days later, on July 13, the deadline for the parties to lodge possible complaints with the Federal Constitutional Court against a finding by the Federal Electoral Committee that prevents them from submitting nominations ends. On July 19, 6 p.m., the deadline for submitting district election proposals and state lists to the district or state election management ends. The ÖDP and Bayernpartei had to collect supporters' signatures in the spring in order to be allowed to vote at all. The federal government reduced the required minimum number this year, to 500 in Bavaria.
Four years ago there were 198 198 eligible voters in the constituency; this year there are over 200,000. 163,357 actually exercised their voting rights.
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