Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey sees the OSCE's announcement that it will not send any international observers to the repeat elections on February 12 as a good sign.
"This is perhaps also a positive interim result," said the SPD politician on Tuesday.
"The state of preparation is so good that the OSCE is refraining from it."
Now it must be a question of preparing a smooth election, said Giffey.
"That's happening right now." There are many very committed election workers, training is taking place, the necessary materials are being prepared with great logistical effort, postal voting is already underway.
"The preparations are going well.
We are very confident that we will deliver a technically well-organized election here.”
Giffey pointed out that one or two mistakes sometimes happen with the documents for a good 2.4 million voters for the House of Representatives.
"All of these smaller things that are being corrected are not problematic, critical points for the smooth course of the election." Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) also made this clear in the Senate on Tuesday.