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Dates and deadlines for the Election to the 7th European Parliament on 7 June 2009

 

Date
(day before the election)

 Event
31 March 2009
(68th day)

Last day – 6 p.m. – on which nominations for joint lists for all Länder can be submitted to the Federal Returning Officer 
2 April 2009
(66th day)		 Last day – 6 p.m. – on which nominations for lists for one Land can be submitted to the Land returning officer
10 April 2009
Good Friday
(58th day

1. Deadline

  1. for withdrawing or modifying a nomination
  2. for remedying defects of the nomination which do not affect its validity

2. Decision on admission

  1. of the joint list for all Länder (Federal Electoral Committee)
  2. of the list for the respective Land (Land electoral committee)

3. Earliest date for issuing polling cards
13 April 2009
Easter Monday
(55th day)		 Last day for lodging complaints with the Federal Electoral Committee about the decision taken by the Land electoral committee on the admission of lists for a Land
16 April 2009
(52nd day)		 Last day for a decision to be taken by the Federal Electoral Committee on complaints lodged
20 April 2009
(48th day)		 Last day for a public announcement on
– the lists admitted for individual Länder
– the joint lists admitted for all Länder
by the Federal Returning Officer
3 May 2009
(35th day)		 Date for entering all persons eligible to vote who are registered at the registration office on that very day in the register of voters
17 May 2009
(21st day)

Last day for

  1. notifying the persons eligible to vote about their having been entered in the register of voters
  2. filing an application for entry in the register of voters by persons entitled to vote who are entered only upon application (Annex 2A of the European Electoral Regulations – EuWO)  (German citizens living abroad)
  3. filing an application for entry in the register of voters by Union citizens entitled to vote (Annex 2A EuWO)
  4. filing an application by Union citizens not wishing to be contained in the register of voters (Annex 2C EuWO)
18 – 22 May 2009
(20th – 16th day)		 Opportunity to inspect the registers of voters and object on account of  incorrectness or incompleteness of the voters’ register
28 May 2009
(10th day)		 Last day for delivering a decision on objections against the correctness of the voters’ register
30 May 2009
(8th day)		 Last day for filing a complaint with the district returning officer (in towns not attached to an administrative district with the town returning officer) about the decision taken by the local authority on objections against the correctness of the voters’ registers; the complaint has to be lodged with the local authority
1 June 2009
Whit Monday
(6th day)		 Deadline for the local authority to release information on the beginning and end of voting hours, on polling districts, polling stations, ballot papers and the election procedure
3 June 2009
(4th day)		 Last day for a decision of the district returning officer or town returning officer to be taken on complaints about the decision of the local authority on objections against the voters’ register
5 June 2009
(2nd day)		 Last day – 6 p.m. – on which polling cards can be applied for
7 June 2009
(Election Day)
  1. Casting of votes as a rule from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  2. 3 p.m. – application for polling cards to be issued in special cases (Section 24 subsection 2 EuWO and in the case of a sudden illness which has been proven)
  3. 6 p.m. latest point in time for postal ballot papers to be received in time by the competent authority
  4. After 6 p.m. determination and establishment of the provisional election result
  5. Official announcement of the provisional election result for Germany by the Federal Returning Officer (only after voting hours are over in the EU Member State whose voters are the last to cast their votes)
After Election Day
  1. Determination and establishment of the final result in the districts and towns not attached to an administrative district by the district and town electoral committees in public session
  2. Determination and establishment of the final result in the Land by the Land electoral committee in public session
  3. Establishment of the final result in the electoral area and of the candidates elected by the Federal Electoral Committee in public session
  4. Notification of those elected by the Federal Returning Officer
  5. Public announcement of the
    1. final election result in the Land by the Land returning officer
    2. final election result for the electoral area, the distribution of seats among the individual nominations to be considered and the candidates elected in the electoral area by the Federal Returning Officer
14 July 2009 Elected candidates attain membership of the European Parliament after the final establishment of the election result with the opening of the first constituent session of the European Parliament
7 August 2009 Last day for filing objections against the validity of the election with the German Bundestag by any person entitled to vote, the Land returning officers, the Federal Returning Officer and the President of the German Bundestag

 

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