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Voting in a Berlin polling station
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Two days after the election to the Berlin House of Representatives, one question remains unanswered: Who will belong to the state parliament in the future?
It has been clear since Monday who won the 78 direct seats in the constituencies.
However, the state election management left it open for an unusually long time as to which 69 candidates would enter parliament via the state and district lists.
In the parliamentary groups there had been uncertainty and "bewilderment" since Monday, as it was called in parliamentary circles.
Where exactly the problem lies could not be found out from the regional returning officer.
On Monday she was unable to provide any answers to the election chaos on Sunday.
Because of the unclear personnel situation, the CDU postponed its first parliamentary group meeting to Thursday.
The party simply didn't know who to invite and who might not have made the leap into parliament.
Other factions tried to figure out for themselves which candidates would make it and have already met.
The Greens elected their temporary group leader, the top candidate Bettina Jarasch.
As the winner of the election, the SPD has announced that exploratory talks will start at the end of the week.
Your top candidate Franziska Giffey announced on Monday evening that the first talks were planned with the Greens.
There had been a lot of chaos in Berlin on election night.
In some places long queues formed in front of the polling stations.
Some of the ballot papers had run out, some people are said to have even been offered to be allowed to advance in the queue if they only wanted to cast their vote for the Bundestag.
The marathon, which took place at the same time as the election, also made logistics more difficult.
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