Federal election: BSW complains about “systematic counting errors” and information a grievance in Karlsruhe | EUROtoday

The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is resisting the willpower of the outcomes of the 2025 federal election – now it’s the Federal Constitutional Court’s flip. The BSW submitted its introduced election audit grievance to the best German court docket at this time, as “Stern” studies.

According to the journal, the 177-page doc refers to eight affidavits from voters to show alleged errors within the counting. The written assertion can also be obtainable to the German Press Agency.

“These are demonstrably false results, which also clearly indicate structural errors in the counting to the detriment of the BSW,” stated get together chief Amira Mohamed Ali to “Stern”: “We know that the official final result is wrong,” she emphasised.

The BSW has clearly demonstrated “irregularities and systematic counting errors to our detriment,” Wagenknecht advised the journal. She emphasised that the BSW isn’t suing for entry into the Bundestag. It’s only a matter of appropriately figuring out the election outcomes of the final federal election – and the inhabitants’s belief within the democratic system.

Missed entry into the Bundestag by a hair’s breadth

The BSW management had already introduced particulars of the grievance on February ninth in Berlin. According to the official closing outcomes, the get together didn’t cross the 5 p.c hurdle within the federal election on February 23, 2025 with 4.981 p.c of the second votes. Nationwide, 9,529 votes have been lacking.

The BSW assumes that there are counting errors and assumes that it ought to truly be in parliament. In that case, the mandates would have been distributed otherwise. The present black-red coalition below Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) wouldn’t have had its personal majority.

The Bundestag’s election audit committee examined the BSW’s objections for months, however in the end a majority within the committee thought-about the grievance to be unfounded. Parliament rejected a recount.