The general election in Berlin was accompanied by mishaps in several electoral districts.
The Federal Returning Officer now objects to the validity of the election.
In his opinion, the errors could have been relevant to the mandate.
Wiesbaden / Berlin - After mishaps in the Bundestag election in Berlin, Federal Returning Officer Georg Thiel appealed against the result of the Bundestag election. "Due to the accumulation and severity of individual voting errors, I have appealed against the validity of the election to the 20th German Bundestag in six Berlin constituencies," he said on Friday in Wiesbaden. Due to the problems on election day, it could not be ruled out that “without these incidents the German Bundestag would have been allocated differently”. "Business Insider" had previously reported on the topic.
On September 26, there was a temporary closure of voting rooms in Berlin constituencies due to missing or incorrect ballot papers and queues in front of voting rooms for other organizational reasons.
There were sometimes very long waiting times, so that as a result, many voters would not have been able to exercise their right to vote, it said in the statement by the Federal Returning Officer.
The objection relates to the constituencies 75 Berlin-Mitte, 76 Berlin-Pankow, 77 Berlin-Reinickendorf, 79 Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf, 80 Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and 83 Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg Ost - i.e. to the Half of the twelve Berlin parliamentary constituencies.
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According to his own information, Thiel has requested a report from the Berlin state election control to examine the incidents.
According to all currently available knowledge, the incidents would have violated electoral regulations and therefore represented electoral errors that, among other things, would have impaired the principle of the generality of the election.
In addition, the election errors that occurred could have been relevant to the mandate.
Whether or not there will be a new election in certain electoral districts because of the mishaps in Berlin will be decided at the end of the day by the Bundestag.
In principle, the Federal Returning Officer, the Land Returning Officer and all eligible voters can object to a Bundestag election no later than two months after the election.
The contact person is the Bundestag election review committee.
He checks whether mistakes have occurred that could have affected the composition of the Bundestag or whether the rights of voters or candidates have been violated.
The committee prepares a decision and submits it to the Bundestag plenary for a vote.
The deadline for an objection ends on Friday next week.
In Berlin, on September 26th, the citizens not only elected the Bundestag, but also the House of Representatives and district councils.
In addition, there was the vote on a referendum on the expropriation of large housing companies.
At the same time, the Berlin Marathon took place with many road closures.
When the final results of the Bundestag election were announced in mid-October, the Federal Returning Officer had already publicly considered raising an objection to the validity of the election in individual constituencies in Berlin.
"The German electoral system imagines a different quality than it appeared here in Berlin on September 26," Thiel said at the time.
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