Berlin will possible have to repeat its 2021 state and district elections, the president of the German capital’s constitutional court docket has mentioned.
The regional votes within the German capital final September have been marred by extreme glitches, in line with the decide, Ludgera Selting.
Lengthy strains shaped exterior many polling stations in Berlin on 26 September 2021 as voters struggled with additional poll papers.
On the identical day, Berlin held simultaneous federal, state and district-level elections, in addition to a city-wide referendum on expropriating the property of enormous actual property corporations.
Some polling stations ran out of poll papers whereas others acquired ones for the improper district, resulting in a lot of invalidated ballots.
One other difficulty was that the election was supposed to finish at 18:00, however folks ready in line at the moment have been nonetheless allowed to forged their votes.
A number of political events and authorities entities, together with Berlin’s election authority and the far-right Various for Germany (AfD) social gathering had filed formal complaints and known as for an investigation into the election outcomes.
Selting mentioned on Wednesday that errors and issues at polling stations possible influenced the election outcomes and the general make-up of the Berlin state parliament.
If the court docket decides that the state and district election outcomes are invalid, a brand new city-wide election would must be held inside 90 days.
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