Karlsruhe accepts the complaint: DKP is allowed to run for the Bundestag election


Karlsruhe accepts the complaint
DKP is allowed to run for the Bundestag election

Dozens of groups want to run for the Bundestag election, not all of them were allowed by the election committee. Like the German Communist Party, which then goes to the Federal Constitutional Court – with success. The judges ascertain potential for the “political decision-making of the people”.

The German Communist Party (DKP) is allowed to run for the Bundestag election on September 26th. The Federal Constitutional Court upheld a complaint by the party against a different decision by the Federal Electoral Committee, as the highest German court in Karlsruhe announced. Another 19 rejected groups were unsuccessful in complaining about their non-recognition.

The Federal Electoral Committee rejected the DKP because it had submitted several statements of account late in the past few years. According to the decision of the constitutional judges of the Second Senate, this is not enough to deny the DKP its party status. The scope of their organization, the number of their members and their public presence indicated “that they are capable of seriously participating in the formation of the political will of the people for the federal or state level,” it said in support of the statement.

Defeat for the Republicans

Most of the other complaints (15) were classified as inadmissible because they were either insufficiently justified or were raised too late. The complaints from the Republicans and the climate protection party, for example, were unsuccessful. The “Association of the Natural” lacks the quality of a party. The Republicans and the “lottery faction” did not inform the Federal Returning Officer in time that they would participate in the election. The “Alliance for Innovation & Justice”, in turn, had already withdrawn its participation in the election by writing to the Federal Returning Officer and called for the election of another, approved party.

In four cases, the judges considered the complaints “at least unfounded”. In its two-day meeting on July 8th and 9th, the federal election committee decided that 53 parties could participate in the federal election, including 44 smaller parties and associations. 43 groups applied unsuccessfully.

The committee only checks whether the candidates for the election comply with the prescribed formalities. He is not allowed to evaluate the content of the parties’ program. Rejected groups have four days to file a complaint in Karlsruhe. The Federal Constitutional Court must then have made a decision on this up to the 59th day before the election.

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