Press release no. 05/21 of 31. März 2021
2021 Bundestag Election: Federal Electoral Committee has been constituted
WIESBADEN – The Federal Returning Officer reports that the Federal Electoral Committee for the election to the 20th German Bundestag has been constituted. The Federal Electoral Committee consists of the Federal Returning Officer as chair, eight persons entitled to vote who have been appointed by him as assessors, and two judges of the Federal Administrative Court. There is a deputy for each of them. The assessors are appointed by the Federal Returning Officer at the proposal of the parties.
In Bundestag elections, the Federal Electoral Committee is tasked:
- to decide on appeals against instructions given by the Federal Returning Officer in proceedings for the rectifying of faults,
- to ascertain which parties have been continuously represented in the German Bundestag or in a Land parliament since the last election to the relevant assembly by at least five members on the basis of nominations made by the party itself,
- to ascertain which associations that have given notice of their intention to participate in the election but have not been continuously represented in the German Bundestag or in a Land parliament since the last election to the relevant assembly by at least five members based on nominations by the association itself have to be recognised as parties for the election,
- to decide on complaints about the rejection or approval of a Land list,
- to ascertain the final result of the election by Land list for the electoral area.
The Federal Electoral Committee for the 2021 Bundestag election has the following members:
Chair | Dr. Georg Thiel Federal Returning Officer |
Deputy | Heinz-Christoph Herbertz Deputy Federal Returning Officer |
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Assessor | Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner (CDU) | Deputy | Dr. Detlef Gottschalck (CDU) |
Assessor | Mechthild Dyckmans (FDP) | Deputy | Judith Pirscher (FDP) |
Assessor | Hartmut Geil (GRÜNE) | Deputy | Emily May Büning (GRÜNE) |
Assessor | Petra Kansy (CDU) | Deputy | Gabriele Hauser (CDU) |
Assessor | Georg Pazderski (AfD) | Deputy | Roman Reusch (AfD) |
Assessor | Dr. Johannes Risse (SPD) | Deputy | Dr. Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast (SPD) |
Assessor | Jörg Schindler (DIE LINKE) | Deputy | Claudia Gohde (DIE LINKE) |
Assessor | Tobias Schmid (CSU) | Deputy | Florian Bauer (CSU) |
Member | Petra Hoock Judge at the Federal Administrative Court |
Deputy | Anne-Kathrin Fricke Judge at the Federal Administrative Court |
Member | Dr. Stefan Langer Judge at the Federal Administrative Court |
Deputy | Damian-Markus Preisner Judge at the Federal Administrative Court |
Comprehensive information on the 2021 Bundestag election is available on the website of the Federal Returning Officer at www.bundeswahlleiter.de.
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