Overview
- District offices have logged dozens to hundreds of reports of early or incorrectly placed campaign posters and are documenting breaches for possible sanctions.
- Treptow‑Köpenick’s April motion to cap public posters at 17,500 is not being applied because the Senatsverkehrsverwaltung disagrees on the law and the required Einigungsstelle is not in place.
- The AfD won approval for 3,000 posters from the Bezirksamt and began large-scale posting after the city-level objection to a cap; other parties together plan roughly 250,000 posters across Berlin.
- District authorities say the standard administrative fine is about €50 per offending location and Steglitz‑Zehlendorf expects roughly €2,900 from reported early placements though no fines have been finalized.
- The dispute leaves practical burdens for municipal staff who must monitor lamp‑post posting, remove wrongly placed signs, manage recycling and handle extra enforcement while legal clarity is deferred to the next legislative period.