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During the federal election in 2021, there were several breakdowns at polling stations in Berlin.
Around 550,000 people are now called to vote again.
Berlin - Berlin election, next part: The federal election from September 2021 must be repeated this Sunday in a good fifth of Berlin's electoral districts.
This means that around 550,000 eligible voters in the city with 3.8 million inhabitants are called to cast their votes.
The new Berlin election cannot change the distribution of the majority.
But that doesn't mean that it can't still cost individuals their mandate.
The repeat of the Berlin election is due to several mishaps on election day, September 26, 2021.
At that time there were not only problems with ballot papers, but also a lack of voting booths and long queues in front of the polling stations had become a sticking point.
In addition to the federal election, this also affected the election for the Berlin House of Representatives, which was repeated in February 2023.
The federal election must be repeated this Sunday in 455 of Berlin's 2,256 electoral districts.
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No forecasts: Preliminary results should be known around 1:30 a.m
When the affected polling stations in Berlin close at 6 p.m., no forecasts are expected due to the low number of votes.
Because: According to the Berliner Zeitung
, the survey institutes had rejected this
in advance, as no significant changes were expected in the 2021 federal election anyway.
Instead, according to state returning officer Stephan Bröchler, the counted results from the polling stations should be announced gradually, so that a preliminary overall result should be available around 1:30 a.m.
Bröchler had emphasized several times that Berlin feared a low turnout in the election rerun and had therefore repeatedly called for people to vote in the past few weeks, for example with the “Berlin needs your vote” campaign.
Results of the Berlin election – Expect low voter turnout
One of the reasons that Bröchler expects a low voter turnout among people in Berlin is certainly the fact that the outcome of the vote will have little impact on the composition of the Bundestag.
The 550,000 votes could neither change the majority in parliament nor could the Left Party, which was only narrowly elected, fall below the five percent limit.
This was reported by the Berliner
Tagesspiegel
in the run-up to the repeat election .
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The Federal Constitutional Court ordered the federal election to be repeated in 455 of 2,256 Berlin electoral districts in December.
In contrast to the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives, which were completely repeated, in the case of the federal election only around 550,000 of the votes cast were declared invalid.
The constituency most affected by the re-election is Pankow, where more than 85 percent of the votes were canceled.
This is followed by Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (42.7 percent), Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg Ost (33.8 percent) and Reinickendorf (31.7 percent).
In almost all other constituencies, according to the AFP news agency, less than ten percent were asked to vote again.
Decisive results in the federal election in Berlin unlikely
As the newspaper explains, the re-election could only have an impact on the mandate of individual MPs, because a direct mandate also has to be voted on in four constituencies.
The MPs who could lose their direct mandate include the Green MP Stefan Gelbhaar in the Pankow constituency, CDU politician Monika Grütters in Reinickendorf, SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert in Tempelhof-Schöneberg as well as the former governing mayor Michael Müller (SPD). Charlottenburg-Wildmersdorf.
Since the candidates are secured in all cases by the party lists, in the event of a postponement, the last candidate on the respective party list would actually lose his mandate.
However, current nationwide election trends do not suggest that there will be any significant changes to the results of 2021 and thus the distribution of mandates.
In September 2021, the SPD was ahead in Berlin with 23.4 percent of the second votes, followed by the Greens (22.4), CDU (15.9), Left (11.4), FDP (9.1) and AfD (8th). ,4).
Of the twelve direct mandates up for grabs in the capital, the SPD won four, the Greens and CDU won three each and the Left won two.
A further 17 Berlin politicians were elected via the party lists, making a total of 29. The SPD and Greens each have seven members, the CDU five, the Left four and the FDP and AfD three each in the Bundestag.
(saka with dpa/AFP)