It has been obvious for months that the traffic light parties want to prevent the elections to the German Bundestag of September 26, 2021 being repeated in the state of Berlin in whole or in significant parts.
In July, the SPD chairman spread the word in the Bundestag's Election Review Committee that despite the chaos on election day, only a few hundred of the more than two thousand polling districts should be re-elected.
This takes account of the worst violations, such as missing ballot papers or voting after 6 p.m.
If you take the reaction of the Greens and FDP as a benchmark, then SPD man Fechner passed the test.
Although the small coalition partners do not want to be inferior to anyone when it comes to valuing civil rights, their parliamentary group and party leaders are still unwilling to thwart the SPD.
The parties don't care that the Federal Returning Officer had warned of a repetition in six of the twelve constituencies and thus in well over a thousand polling stations due to massive irregularities.
However, it was said in the summer that the Bundestag should wait for the procedure before making a final decision, which should be conducted before the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin because of the parallel elections to the House of Representatives and the district assemblies.
It all started with a bang: According to the Berlin lawyers, the election principles were violated so badly across the board that the integrity of the election as a whole was not given.
The traffic light parties obviously don't care.
The grandfathering of a parliament is a valuable asset.
However, it must not be bought by the fact that there are only a few new elections.
If the election to the House of Representatives as a whole took place under irregular conditions, then so did the election to the German Bundestag.
So much rule of law must be.