Overview

• BSW finished at 4.981 percent, about 9,500 votes below the threshold, and its legal bids prompted the constitutional court to defer the dispute to the Bundestag’s election review committee.
• AfD deputy leader Stephan Brandner urged a swift ruling and said any doubt about the Bundestag’s composition should trigger a recount.
• Greens and Left Party members say they will await the committee’s findings, while the committee chair stresses that pre‑judging the case is unacceptable and confirms the BSW complaint is being prioritized.
• BSW argues limited checks already added roughly 4,000 votes for the party, though federal and state election authorities have not reported systematic counting errors that would change the outcome.
• A post‑recount BSW entry could cost the Union‑SPD coalition its majority, while AfD and BSW together would hold more than a quarter of seats, enough to initiate parliamentary inquiry committees.