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Posted on March 11, 2025
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Add as preferred source on GoogleThe BSW party is legally challenging the German election results, citing misallocated votes. They narrowly missed entering parliament.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's political newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), filed a complaint on Monday with the constitutional court seeking to legally challenge the results of the national election, a spokesperson said.
The leftist populist BSW, which was created last year, scored 4.97% in last month's election, lacking just 13,400 votes to enter parliament in a country where around 60 million people are eligible to cast a ballot.
"Several thousand BSW votes have apparently been incorrectly allocated to other parties or deemed invalid," the party's eponymous leader Sahra Wagenknecht was quoted as saying by paper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
Respect for the voters demanded that "possible errors be scrutinised and corrected", she was cited as saying.
(Reporting by Sarah Marsh; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
The BSW party claims that several thousand of their votes were incorrectly allocated to other parties or deemed invalid.
The BSW party scored 4.97% in the election, lacking just 13,400 votes to enter parliament.
The leader of the BSW party is Sahra Wagenknecht.
The BSW party filed a complaint with the constitutional court to legally challenge the election results.
Sahra Wagenknecht stated that respect for the voters demands that possible errors be scrutinized and corrected.
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