Bangs in two federal states: The Bundestag election lists of the Greens in Saarland and the AfD in Bremen have not been approved.
The parties do not want to accept the decisions of the state election committees.
Saarbrücken / Bremen - The Greens and the AfD have initially failed to get admission to the federal elections in two countries.
In Saarland, the state election committee rejected the list of the Greens, in Bremen the committee there did not allow the AfD.
That would mean that the parties could not be elected there.
Both state parties immediately announced a complaint to the federal electoral committee.
The state election committee in Saarland justified the non-approval of the state list on Friday with the fact that delegates had been excluded from the list at the assembly meeting.
This was a serious mistake and violated the principle of democracy.
The background to this is a serious dispute in the state party over the establishment of the list. In the first attempt on June 20, the former state party leader Hubert Ulrich from Saarlouis was elected to first place and thus the top candidate of the Saar Greens. An arbitration tribunal then declared the choice of this list to be invalid because party members who were not entitled to vote had also voted. It also saw a violation of the party's women's statute. Ulrich is the spokesman for the Saarlouis local association.
Before the second attempt at the list election, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Greens then excluded 49 delegates from the Saarlouis local association. The reason: The party court had found irregularities in the election of the delegates in the local association. The list that was then drawn up on July 17, with Jeanne Dillschneider at the top, was not allowed by the state election committee. After the exclusion, several delegates of the Greens from the Saarlouis Association turned to the state election management with objections to the list and asked for an "intensive examination".
“In any case, a complaint will be submitted,” said the provisional state manager Nadja Doberstein to the German press agency in Saarbrücken on Friday.
“We need the list, because that can also cost the candidate for chancellor.” After a complaint, the federal electoral committee has to decide on the admission of the list.
According to the state return office, this could be the case on August 5th.
"I assume that all of this will still last," said Doberstein.
In the 2017 federal election, the Greens in the Saar received 35,117 second votes.
That corresponded to 6.0 percent of the votes cast in Saarland.
Markus Tressel took first place in the list, but he did not run for office again.
In Bremen, the state election committee unanimously rejected the approval of the AfD, as the spokeswoman for the state returning officer said.
Under the election proposal, the affidavit of the secretary of the election meeting was missing.
The AfD tried to submit other affidavits.
However, the signature of this particular person is required by law.
She must ensure that the list has been chosen correctly.
The woman refused to sign.
The background is discrepancies in the regional association of the smallest federal state.
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The AfD has long been at odds in Bremen.
The parliamentary group elected in 2019 in the Bremen citizenship has also disintegrated.
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The AfD regional association and the federal association want to lodge a complaint with the federal returning officer against the non-admission.
This was announced by the member of parliament Thomas Jürgewitz.
The deadline for this expires on Monday.
The AfD has long been at odds in Bremen.
The parliamentary group elected in 2019 in the Bremen citizenship has also disintegrated.
The Bremen AfD was previously represented in the Bundestag by its former head of the country, Frank Magnitz.
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