The Federal Constitutional Court has approved the German Communist Party (DKP) for the Bundestag election.
In the decision published on Tuesday it says: In particular, its scope, the number of its members and the appearance of the DKP in public suggest that “it is able to seriously participate in the political will-formation of the people for the area of the Federation or of a country to participate. "
Marlene Grunert
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At the beginning of July, the Federal Election Committee decided which parties could run for the Bundestag election.
Twenty associations that were not admitted went before the Federal Constitutional Court, in addition to the DKP, for example, the associations Jesusparty - Party of the Gospel, the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany (APPD), Basic Income for All, the Alliance of Generations - Pensioners and Family and the Kai Party .
The constitutional judges only agreed with the DKP.
Among other things, they check whether the respective association is also a party.
The federal electoral committee had argued that the DKP had lost this status because it had not submitted a formal report for six years.
But that alone does not lead to the loss of party status, as the judges have now made clear.
In the past and until recently, the DKP regularly took part in elections to the German Bundestag, the state parliaments and the European Parliament, "whereby it was able to achieve at least not entirely negligible election results," said the court. The DKP recently achieved its best results in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 2016 she received 0.2 percent there.