Overview
- Committee chair Macit Karaahmetoğlu declined BSW leaders’ request for a personal meeting, citing equal treatment and the legal framework of the election review process.
- The Wahlprüfungsausschuss says it has gathered statements from the Federal Returning Officer and all state election authorities and is reviewing them without giving a decision date.
- Sahra Wagenknecht accuses the panel of deliberate delay, calls the refusal an “insult to 2.5 million BSW voters,” and suggests the chair should consider stepping down.
- BSW argues roughly 9,000–9,500 votes were miscounted, a margin that kept it below the 5% threshold and could affect the governing coalition’s majority if corrected.
- The party prepares a December congress in Magdeburg with a possible renaming and board elections, naming Michael Lüders as a vice-chair candidate, while a defamation case by Diether Dehm awaits a ruling next week.