BSW missed the Bundestagstrieb - voice chaos causes excitement!

BSW missed the Bundestagstrieb - voice chaos causes excitement!

The federal government for the election of 2025 has given the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) a significant challenge. With a preliminary result of 4.972 percent, the party narrowly missed the five percent hurdle. In order to be precise, only 13,435 votes lacked the BSW, which corresponds to a very tight result reports Fr.de .

Particularly paying attention to the voices that may have been lost. The BSW suspects that these voices were confused with the results of the Germany (BD). While BD only reached 0.2 percent of the vote nationwide, it sometimes achieved over five percent locally. In Brecht, Rhineland-Palatinate, for example, a remarkable value of 8.3 percent was registered for BD, while BSW received 0 percent there.

Statistically conspicuous anomalies

fabio de Masi, a European politician of the BSW, described the found anomalies as "statistically very noticeable". These results, which are not explained, could indicate a transmission error that has already occurred in the 2024 European elections. The federal election manager also confirmed that changes can arise until the official end result.

In several electoral districts, especially in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony, recesses are underway. In North Rhine -Westphalia it was announced to check all 64 constituencies again, whereby the focus should be on the votes of the BSW. De Masi also criticized the lack of availability of complete election data as a "scandal", as this difficult to check the results. It starts from transmission errors in the middle four -digit range.

The importance of Germans abroad

A significant part of the debate revolves around the voice of the approximately 230,000 registered Germans. De Masi said that many of them were prevented from choosing. He estimates that the lack of votes from the BSW correspond to about six percent of this electorate. Sahra Wagenknecht has already called for a nationwide choice of Germans abroad to regain these missing voices.

The Situation is complicated by the fact that only 9,000 election documents had arrived from abroad by Thursday evening. On the primary evening evening, about 11,200 election documents were handed over to Deutsche Post by courier. Findings show that the BSW should have received at least 11 percent of votes from abroad to exceed the five percent hurdle.

Lawyers like Sophie Schönberger have pointed out that Germans are not entitled to postal votes abroad. This could continue to make participation more difficult, although Joachim Wieland sees the treatment of this group as problematic, but sees no basis for intervention by the Constitutional Court.

criticism of survey institutes

Political scientist Thorsten Faas designated Wagenknecht's accusation as excessive and referred to studies that show no clear effect of surveys on voter behavior. Nevertheless, the outcry of the BSW could possibly help foreign Germans in the long term by increasingly coming to the political agenda.

The Federal Election Committee will announce the final official result on March 14, 2025. Until then, it remains exciting whether the re -counts and questions discussed on the validity of the voting solutions that could ensure a fairer electoral system.

The five percent hurdle, which says that parties have to receive at least five percent of the valid second votes in order to be represented in the Bundestag, is controversial in the current political landscape Wikipedia . Critics indicate that they undermine the equal opportunities of smaller parties and discuss the need for reform.