The state election committee in Saarland has rejected the state list of the Greens for the federal election.
The reason was the exclusion of delegates from the list at the assembly meeting, announced the state election control on Friday after a meeting of the state election committee of several hours.
This was a serious mistake and violated the principle of democracy.
The Bremen state election committee also did not allow a state list for the federal election: that of the AfD.
The election proposals of the party did not correspond to the legal requirements, it was said by the state election committee of the Hanseatic city after a meeting of the body.
According to a spokeswoman for the regional election management, an AfD representative, who among other things acted as secretary during the party's assembly meeting, refused to give the electoral committee the obligatory affidavit that the AfD list would be drawn up in accordance with the electoral law.
This means that approval of the state list is excluded.
The Bremen AfD now has three days to appeal against the decision.
The Federal Returning Officer is responsible for this.
"That can also cost the candidate for chancellor"
The Saarland Greens have already announced that they want to take action against the rejection of their state list.
“In any case, a complaint will be submitted,” said the provisional state manager Nadja Doberstein to the German press agency in Saarbrücken on Friday.
Following a complaint, the Federal Electoral Committee must then decide whether to approve the list.
"I assume that all of this will still last," said Doberstein.
Doberstein said the 49 delegates from the Saarlouis local association had been excluded after a verdict by the Federal Arbitration Court of the Greens.
“It is assumed that a federal arbitration tribunal has dealt very well with the issue.
Because you don't do something like that lightly to exclude delegates. "
"We need the list, because that can also cost the candidate for chancellor," she said.
Because without a state list one cannot vote green in Saarland.
“That means: The votes for green from the Saarland are fluttering.” In the 2017 federal election, the Greens in the Saar received 35,117 second votes.
That corresponded to 6.0 percent of the votes cast in Saarland.
Janine Dillschneider elected in the second attempt
The rejected list was drawn up on July 17th, making the second attempt.
Jeanne Dillschneider was elected to the top.
However, 49 delegates from the Saarlouis local association were excluded from the decision on the list by the Federal Arbitration Court of the Greens.
The reason: The party court had previously found irregularities in the election of the delegates in the local association.
After the exclusion, several delegates of the Greens from the Saarlouis Association turned to the state election management with objections to the list and asked for an "intensive examination".
At the first attempt to compile a state list, on June 20, the former state party leader Hubert Ulrich, who came from Saarlouis, was elected to first place and thus the top candidate of the Saar Greens.
The events surrounding this election had plunged the state party into violent turbulence.
An arbitration tribunal had declared the choice of this list to be invalid because party members who were not entitled to vote had also voted.
It also saw a violation of the party's women's statute.
Ulrich is the spokesman for the Saarlouis local association.
The Greens are not represented in the state parliament in Saarland.
In the 2009 Bundestag election, Markus Tressel was elected to the first place on the state list in the Bundestag.
He defended his mandate in 2013 and 2017 - he announced his retirement in 2021.
The Saar Greens have no chance of a direct mandate.
The lists of the other 15 parties were approved.
In addition to the four parties represented in the Saarbrücken state parliament, CDU, SPD, Left and AfD, these include the FDP, the Free Voters, the right-wing extremist NPD, the Pirate Party, Volt and the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP).