2024-02-11 07:39:27
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The federal election in Berlin will be repeated. More than 500,000 people can cast their vote once more. Will the election chaos of 2021 repeat itself? The ticker.
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- On February 11th, following the 2021 breakdown disaster, the federal election will be repeated – but only partially. This news ticker is constantly updated.
Update from February 11th, 9:40 a.m.: Around 800,000 ballot papers, 9,000 helpers – these are some of the figures for today’s repeat of the Berlin election.
The polls close at 6 p.m. But the first forecasts will be according to a report from Berliner Zeitung to not give. The survey institutes had rejected this in advance, as no significant changes were expected in the 2021 federal election anyway. Instead, the counted results should be announced gradually. The state returning officer expects that a preliminary overall result can be announced around 1:30 a.m. on Monday night.
Stephan Bröchler (r), state returning officer for Berlin, votes at the polling station in the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium in Berlin-Pankow. © Christoph Soeder/dpa
Berlin election will be repeated today: AfD direct candidate is in custody
Update from February 11th, 8:40 a.m.: Will everything be better this time? The polling stations in Berlin have now been open since 8 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. 549,549 Berliners in 455 electoral districts are called to vote.
Small shifts are possible by repeating the election. Some MPs might lose their seats in the Bundestag, others might move into parliament. Berlin currently has 29 of the 736 members of the Bundestag.
The focus of the Berlin election is an AfD direct candidate who is currently in custody but can still be elected: Birgit Malsack-Winkemann was presumably part of the group around the entrepreneur Heinrich XIII. Prince Reuss. There is a suspicion that the people in question, close to the Reich citizens, had plans for a coup in Germany.
Fear of further chaos if the Berlin election is repeated
Berlin – After the election debacle of 2021, elections will be held once more in Berlin. 455 electoral districts in all 12 constituencies vote on who should represent them in the Bundestag – over two years later. The blame lies with a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court following the CDU and CSU sued over the botched election. The reasons included incorrectly filled out ballot papers, partially closed polling stations or hours of waiting in front of the polling stations.
As the Federal Returning Authority responded to a request from IPPEN.MEDIA announced that around 550,000 eligible voters have been asked to go to the ballot box. This means that just over a fifth of the voters registered for the 2021 federal election will have to vote once more in the 2024 Berlin election. However, voter turnout is expected to be lower than it was two years ago, notes Berlin political scientist Thorsten Faas. Voter turnout might drop from the previous 75 percent to 40 percent.
Anyone who has been resident in the affected electoral district for at least 42 days before the election can cast their vote in the by-election. Anyone who has moved away loses their right to vote. People who no longer live in Germany but had their last place of residence in an affected electoral district can “apply for entry in the voters’ register,” the Federal Elections Authority said.
No new candidates in the re-election in Berlin
The selection, however, has not changed compared to the 2021 election. As the state election authority announces on its website, “election proposals can only be changed if an applicant has died or is no longer eligible for election. New election proposals will not be accepted.”
Long queues in front of the polling stations – the 2021 federal elections in Berlin were rather chaotic. Will redial be a disaster once more? © Hauke-Christian Dittrich/picture alliance/dpa
Anyone who rejected their mandate in 2021 will also appear on the ballot papers once more. If they accept the election this time, their list successors might lose their seats in the Bundestag. But only “when the Council of Elders of the German Bundestag decides that the person following the list will lose their membership”. You can find out everything you need to know regarding the Berlin election in the question and answer overview here.
Does the repeat election of the federal election have an impact on the traffic light government?
It is unlikely that the by-election will change anything in the current traffic light coalition government. However, some mandates might be distributed differently – even beyond the borders of Berlin. In Berlin, the mandates of Monika Grütters (CDU) from the Reinickendorf constituency and the Green MP Stefan Gelbhaar in the Pankow constituency are particularly at risk, reports daily News.
Who is allowed to vote?People over 18 who have moved to a corresponding electoral district at least 42 days before the election.When will the election take place?Sunday, February 11, 2024Who is standing for election?The candidates from the 2021 election will run once more. No further candidates are allowed to join. Only deceased people are excluded from the election. How many electoral districts have to re-vote? 455 electoral districts in Berlin. In which constituencies will new elections be held? The election will be repeated in all 12 Berlin constituencies.
“During the repeat election, not only the first but also the second votes will be cast once more in the affected Berlin electoral districts and the election result will be redetermined nationwide, taking into account the result of the Berlin repeat election,” writes the election management. This means that the election on Sunday might also lead to mandate shifts in other federal states.
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