Hans-Georg Maaßen will miss his direct mandate and will therefore not be a member of the Bundestag.
His candidacy was considered controversial.
Update from September 27, 6:40 a.m.:
Hans-Georg Maassen's candidacy for the German Bundestag has failed.
The controversial CDU candidate has to admit defeat to the SPD man Frank Ullrich in his constituency in southern Thuringia.
According to the first results, Maassen was only able to collect 22.3 percent of the first votes, while his SPD opponent clearly wins with 33.6 percent of the votes.
The AfD follows with 21.2 percent.
On the evening of the election, Hans-Georg Maaßen thanked him on Twitter for the support of his campaigners and complained about “left-wing propaganda”.
The former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution made headlines with right-wing statements in the election campaign, so that critics said he was close to right-wing extremist ideas.
Maassen is also controversial within the Union.
Hans-Georg Maaßen: The controversial CDU politician's candidacy failed
First report from September 26th, 10 p.m .:
South Thuringia - In the run-up to the federal election in 2021, he was actually expected to have a good chance of entering the Bundestag.
It is now pretty certain: Hans-Georg Maaßen has lost.
After counting more than 400 of the 418 electoral districts, his opponent, the SPD candidate and former biathlon Olympic champion Frank Ullrich, is clearly ahead.
Hans-Georg Maaßen: Right wing statements in the election campaign
Maaßen stood for the Union in constituency 196 in southern Thuringia. The candidacy of the ex-constitutional protection chief was controversial, the federal CDU never clearly positioned itself to Maaßen, which during his election campaign, among other things, spoke out against the observation of the constitutional protection of parties. The 58-year-old made headlines again and again through his right wing statements. That probably didn't help him. After counting the majority of the constituencies, Maaßen only got 22.3 percent of the vote. SPD candidate Ullrich is a long way off with 33.6 percent, and a race to catch up does not seem plausible. On the contrary: Maaßen could slide even further, the AfD candidate Jürgen Treutler currently has 22.3 percent.
In the run-up to the election, the Greens decided to take a bold step.
They called for the first vote to be given to the SPD candidate Ullrich.
The election of Ullrich would protect democracy and prevent a “vote open to the far right” from moving into the Bundestag - this is how the Greens' executive director, Michael Kellner, told the newspapers of the
Funke media group
two and a half weeks before the election
.
(leb / dpa)