In the Berlin repeat election, the SPD and the Greens are each at 18.4 percent – the Social Democrats have a very narrow lead of 105 votes. Will it be counted again?
In view of the conceivably narrow lead of the SPD in the Berlin repeat election, the state returning officer is examining a recount.
“We will take a close look at the numbers again and discuss this with our lawyers,” said Stephan Bröchler, the election officer, to the German Press Agency. According to the preliminary result, the SPD and the Greens both have 18.4 percent of the votes, but the SPD has a wafer-thin lead of 105 votes. “It’s actually a very small gap,” said Bröchler. He assumes that the question of a recount will be decided this week.
The state returning officer was satisfied overall with the course of the repeat election on Sunday. However, there was a “very annoying error” in one of the 2,257 polling stations. There were false ballots there. This was “definitely not relevant to the mandate,” said Bröchler. The state returning officer wanted to give details at a press conference on Monday.
Source: Stern
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