In the current year 2025, Kla.TV reported in various programs on disadvantages and irregularities, including
electoral fraud in elections in the EU states of the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria .
In Bulgaria, this went so far that an uncomfortable opposition party was threatened with a result of 3.999% -
i.e. slightly below the 4% threshold applicable there.
This would happen if it did not submit to one of the ruling oligarchs.
As this was rejected by their party leader, they received exactly the announced result of 3.999%.
The electoral fraud was later established in court and the party was able to enter parliament.
In Germany, too, an uncomfortable opposition party, namely the "Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance", or BSW for short, failed to
enter the Bundestag by a minimal margin due to the 5% hurdle.
Here, too, there are clear indications that something cannot be right with this result.
And here, too, it is almost certainly a tangible scandal that - with a few exceptions - has so far not been
taken up in the system media in accordance with its weight.
Because the implications of this matter would be immense.
If it turns out that the BSW is wrongly not represented in the Bundestag and, in the event of a successful
objection, would exceed the 5% hurdle, Friedrich Merz's black-red government would be left without a majority.
The election of Merz as Chancellor would be illegitimate due to the incorrect majority ratios and all decisions made
by the Merz government to date would ultimately be unlawful.
Kla.TV therefore takes a closer look at these events in this program:
In the German Bundestag election on February 23, 2025, the BSW received 4.972% of the second votes cast.
They were just 13,435 votes short of entering parliament.
Never before has a party failed to reach the 5% hurdle by such a narrow margin.
However, BSW soon had doubts about the accuracy of this result.
This was because voters came forward who claimed to have voted for BSW, but then found out that 0 votes
had been counted for BSW at their polling station.
The BSW then set up a task force to review the result.
The fact that there were violations in this election was also noted by numerous independent election
observers who had themselves verified as election observers via the website Wabeo.de.
Through this initiative, a total of 3,700 people were deployed as election observers during the election
and identified 650 violations, which they objected to.
Are there any indications of an incorrect election result to the detriment of BSW?
After the election there were various recounts and checks in individual constituencies.
As a result, a total of almost 7,425 votes were revalued nationwide.
Of these, 4,277 went to the BSW, which is now only 9,528 votes short of entering the Bundestag.
This means that more than one in two of the corrected votes was allocated to BSW.
This indicates considerable counting errors to the detriment of BSW.
The question arises as to why so many counting errors occurred at BSW in particular.
1) On the one hand, there were numerous cases of confusion with a minor party with a similar name, namely
"Bündnis Deutschland", in the constituencies surveyed.
This party was directly ahead of the BSW in the ballot papers.
It could therefore happen that these parties were mixed up during counting and transmission.
For example, in a postal voting district in Mettmann (NRW).
In the provisional result, 8 votes were counted for the BSW and 14 votes for Bündnis Deutschland.
The recount carried out in this constituency showed that all 14 Alliance Germany votes had to be attributed to the BSW.
The following data suggest that such mix-ups also occurred elsewhere:
Overall, the BSW had a 32 times higher result than the Alliance Germany.
Nevertheless, it was ahead of the BSW in 145 constituencies.
Here are some glaring examples:
- In Wedel, Alliance Germany received 31 votes in constituency 7, but the BSW did not receive a single vote, while in
constituencies 6 and 8, Alliance Germany received only 1 vote and the BSW 31 and 41 votes respectively.
- In Hamburg constituency 32118, 0 votes were counted for the BSW, but 33 for Alliance Germany.
In the neighboring constituencies, Bündnis Deutschland receives 0 and 2 votes, BSW 34 and 18.
In a press release, Bündnis Deutschland has itself called for a recount of the votes.
Its chairman Steffen Große made it clear: "We don't want to book votes that don't actually belong to us."
2) Another striking feature was the number of invalid votes.
The overall average was 0.6% of the votes cast.
In some constituencies, however, this proportion was 19 times higher.
According to political scientist Professor Dr. Uwe Wagschal, a 19-fold deviation from the average is always something that
needs to be closely examined to ensure that an election is fair.
BSW could also be particularly affected here.
Cases have come to light in which voters had first placed their crosses with Bündnis Deutschland, but then realized the mistake,
crossed out their original cross and placed a new cross with BSW.
According to eyewitnesses, there were counters who incorrectly counted such ballots as invalid,
although the will of the voters was clearly recognizable.
There were also cases in which ill-informed polling officials counted ballot papers
as invalid if the first vote was not marked.
As the BSW often ran without first choice candidates, it was once again particularly affected by such misjudgements.
In view of these irregularities, the renowned political scientists Prof. Dr. Eckhard Jesse and Prof. Dr. Uwe Wagschal believe that
a complete recount is not only sensible, but urgently needed.
However, recounts were only carried out in a fraction of the constituencies.
The following calculation shows the extent to which a complete recount of all constituencies could change the result:
It is known that all votes in 50 constituencies were recounted.
In total, these recounts resulted in 15 more votes for BSW.
This initially appears to be very low.
However, there are 95,109 constituencies in Germany.
If one extrapolates the increase in votes for the BSW in the 50 recounted constituencies to all
constituencies, this would mean 28,533 more votes for the BSW.
This is about three times what the BSW needs to enter the Bundestag.
If only one vote for the BSW were added in every 10th constituency, this would be enough to clear the 5% hurdle.
Delayed review
After the BSW learned of the glitches and counting errors, the party attempted to contest the election result.
However, she came up against numerous obstacles.
On March 11, 2025, the BSW filed a lawsuit against the election result with the Federal Constitutional Court.
Two days later, the court dismissed the action, as the Bundestag was initially responsible for reviewing the election.
The Federal Constitutional Court confirmed this view with further decisions in June and instructed the Bundestag to
decide on the BSW's appeal within a reasonable period of time.
The BSW would only be able to take its case to the Federal Constitutional Court after
the decision of the election review committee.
However, the Bundestag was in no particular hurry with its decision, as can be seen from a
statement by BSW party founder Sahra Wagenknecht.
The various committees were constituted in May, including the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, the
Rules of Procedure and Immunity, which is responsible for dealing with election appeals.
Or so we thought. That's why we wrote a nice letter to the chairman and asked him for a personal meeting.
The good man then wrote back just as nicely and told us that no, he was not responsible for examining the complaints about the
Bundestag elections, as there are over 100 others in addition to ours, but that a completely
different election review committee had yet to be set up.
The Bundestag press office, on the other hand, says that no, i.e. all committees have already been
constituted and nothing is known about another one.
To shed some light on the situation, we then wrote to the President of the Bundestag and asked
whether there was a committee responsible for us.
But unfortunately, Ms. Klöckner has not yet replied. A real piece of bourgeoisie.
The Bundestag is responsible for examining our demand for a recount, but there is no competent committee in
the Bundestag that could carry out this examination.
On June 26, 2025, more than four months after the election, the responsible committee was finally formed.
According to committee chairman Macit Karaahmetoğlu, the BSW's objection will be treated as a priority.
However, when this program was produced in mid-November, nine months after the election, there had not yet been a
decision on the objection, much to the outrage of the BSW.
This is hardly surprising, as the governing parties CDU/CSU and SPD have a majority of five MPs on the nine-member committee.
They will have little interest in depriving their own government of a majority by making a quick decision.
In addition, the AfD and the BSW would then be able to jointly convene committees of inquiry, such as a committee of
inquiry into the Nord Stream demolition or a coronavirus committee of inquiry, which both parties are calling for.
The AfD, through its deputy federal chairman Stephan Brandner, has already declared its support for the request for a recount.
Brandner said: "The other groups seem to be playing for time.
From our point of view, a decision must be made as quickly as possible."
Andrej Hunko, co-chair of the BSW, comments on these events as follows:
"As an international election observer for the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German
Bundestag, I have taken part in around 30 missions in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the USA and Latin America.
I am not aware of any country in the world where the newly elected parliament decides whether
it has come about legitimately - except Germany.
In this country, there is not even a time frame in which this decision has to be made.
As a rule, most countries have an independent electoral authority ("Central Election Commission") with corresponding powers.
A year ago, I was in Georgia for the Council of Europe, for example, where almost 15 percent of the polling
stations were recounted within a few days following fierce protests and accusations of electoral fraud.
The decision was made by the highest electoral authority within a few days.
A recount - and then the probable entry of the BSW into the Bundestag - would massively change the composition:
Around 32 MPs from all parliamentary groups would have to leave the Bundestag, while 32 BSW MPs would move in.
The Merz/Klingbeil government would no longer have a majority.
The previous resolutions would be overshadowed by a lack of legitimacy.
This is the reason why the review of election complaints in the Bundestag is being delayed - by the
parties that call themselves "the democratic parties".
Back in June, the President of the Parliament of the Council of Europe called on the new German delegation, following
its accreditation, to bring the examination of the election complaints in Germany to a swift conclusion.
25 members of the parliamentary assembly there demanded the same and suggested a recount.
In addition to the Council of Europe, 22 celebrities, such as Dieter Hallervorden, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, former EU
Vice-President Günter Verheugen and the former judge at the Constitutional Court of Saxony, Prof. Dr. Christoph
Degenhart, have also called for a recount in an open letter.
Many citizens used the BSW website to send pre-formulated emails directly to the Electoral Review Committee.
Its mailboxes have already been paralyzed by over 20,000 such mails.
However, the latter is still sticking to its delaying tactics.
Conclusion: The fact that MPs from the governing parties in Germany decide on objections from political
rivals to the legality of the Bundestag election represents a clear conflict of interest.
This is a scandal and must not happen in a functioning democracy.
Especially with the current far-reaching decisions regarding compulsory military service, pensions, war and peace, it
must be ensured that the legal system in Germany functions and that the government in office is legitimately elected!
It is becoming increasingly clear that the separation of powers, a fundamental element of any functioning
democracy, is not sufficiently guaranteed in Germany.
Fundamental reforms are urgently needed so that, among other things, the power to decide on illegally
held elections does not lie with the governing parties.
Ralf Ludwig showed what the first steps could look like to give power back to the citizens as sovereigns in the
following program: "How does the population get power back?"
He describes a peaceful and completely legal way via the state constitutions of the federal states.
This advanced program is highly recommended.
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