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Bundestag member Nina Stahr (Bündnis90/The Greens).
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The partial repeat of the federal election in Berlin has noticeable consequences.
Nothing will change in terms of the majority in parliament.
But several MPs are no longer represented there.
Berlin - After the partial repeat of the federal election in Berlin, four representatives from the capital are no longer represented in parliament.
This applies to the Berlin Green Party state chairwoman Nina Stahr as well as to Berlin's FDP general secretary Lars Lindemann, the SPD MP Ana-Maria Trasnea and the left-wing parliamentarian Pascal Meiser, as the federal election committee announced on Monday morning.
All four entered the Bundestag via their parties' state lists.
In contrast, all candidates who were ahead in the first votes in 2021 were able to defend their direct mandate.
It was already foreseeable before the election that things could be tight for those in last place on their party's respective state list, which was enough to get into the Bundestag in 2021, in the partial repeat of the election on Sunday.
It was still enough for the Green MP Andreas Audretsch in fourth place on the list, whose re-entry was also considered uncertain - but no longer enough for Stahr in fifth place.
In the SPD, Trasnea was also left behind in sixth place on the list due to the lower voter turnout and the SPD election results.
Voter turnout plays an important role in the recalculation of the nationwide result of the federal election after the partial repeat.
The number of votes cast in the federal election in a federal state determines the number of seats in the Bundestag.
According to the preliminary results, Franziska Krumwiede-Steiner from North Rhine-Westphalia will now enter the Bundestag for Stahr.
Angela Hohmann from Lower Saxony is expected to replace Trasnea, and Christine Buchholz from Hesse will replace Meiser.
Lindemann's seat is eliminated.
The Bundestag will be smaller accordingly.
In the future, it will still have 735 members, including only 91 from the FDP, as the Federal Returning Officer announced on Monday night.
However, two other Berlin MPs, whose return to the Bundestag via the state list was also not considered certain, have made it: The general secretary of the state CDU, Ottilie Klein, is still represented in parliament, as is the AfD MP Götz Frömming.
dpa