(1) Art. 41 (1) first sentence GG provides that the Bundestag is responsible for the scrutiny of elections, and that the Bundestag ’s decision can be challenged with an electoral complaint to …

On 8 and 9 July 2021, the Federal Electoral Committee decided in public session that 53 parties could take part in the Bundestag election of 2021. Then 20 parties lodged complaints with the …

With its decision of 25 March 2021 (2 BvF 1/20, 2 BvL 4/20, 2 BvL 5/20), the BVerfG dealt with three cases in one. Firstly, 284 members of the German Bundestag applied for a declaration …

(1) Art. 41(1) first sentence GG provides that the Bundestag is responsible for the 76 scrutiny of elections, and that the Bundestag’s decision can be challenged with an electoral complaint to …

The Bundestag elects the judges by secret ballot without debate; a two-thirds majority of the votes cast is required and these two-thirds must at least include a majority of all Bundestag …

By order of 22 July 2021, the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court rejected a complaint lodged by the Deutsche Zentrumspartei (hereinafter: the complainant) challenging …

In March 2023, the three ruling parties — the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) — together passed a new electoral law aiming to limit …

The parliamentary member of the Bundestag Joana Cotar (formerly AfD) and five AfD MPs have also submitted corresponding applications. According to the court, there is also a constitutional …

The Federal Constitutional Court’s decision on the electoral complaint lodged by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group is due to be announced on 19 December 2023. Until then, it is not clear …

A spate of constitutional complaints against the German government’s handling of the climate crisis were launched following Urgenda’s success in the Netherlands. But as is often the case …