Voters in one of five constituencies Berlin They are forced to return to the polls due to failures in the election celebrations. 2021 general elections. Affected citizens will be called to vote for the third time after the justice system ordered a repeat of regional elections held in parallel on the same day a year ago. From Berlin voters.
According to the decision, the districts affected are 455, that is, about one fifth of the total. Constitutional Court. New elections will be held on this date February 11 then, more than half of the current legislature has already passed it. It is considered a highly symbolic measure and predictably will not affect the seat distribution. Bundestag (Parliament) or therefore the majority chancellor government coalition Olaf Scholz consists of social democrats, greens and liberals.
But this also plays into the sense of administrative chaos that exists in the capital of the eurozone’s largest economy. On election day, September 26, 2021, in the face of a housing shortage and increasing speculation, general elections, regional elections of the city-state and a referendum on the possible nationalization of large real estate companies converged. On the same day, a marathonThis made mobility difficult in some neighborhoods. The situation led to chaos in some districts ballot papers were missingnot ordered and welded accordingly long lines. In the most critical cases, voting was postponed for several hours and, finally, the closing of the polls had to be postponed; thus, voters continued to vote while public television and other media were already broadcasting initial vote predictions.
Change in mayoral seat
As for regional elections, new elections were held in all districts in February last year. The new results affected the correlation of forces in the district council, so that the newly elected mayor was a social democrat Franziska Giffey, fell to second place. Conservative Kai Wegner Thus, he became mayor and Giffey became the junior partner in the coalition.
It is not thought that the new vote for the general elections will change the seat distribution. The conservative opposition bloc had demanded a repeat vote in at least 1,000 regions. This possibility, or the alternative of all-out repetition, could be damaging. LeftA party that fell below the minimum 5 percent bar required for representation in 2021, but still won seats thanks to three majority victories in many regions.