The court declares Saarbrücken local elections invalid - AfD in the crisis!

The court declares Saarbrücken local elections invalid - AfD in the crisis!

The administrative court of the Saarland declared the regional assembly in the regional association Saarbrücken, which took place on June 9, 2024. This judgment was announced on May 27, 2025 and obliges the state administrative office to declare the election invalid. The decision is the result of an AfD lawsuit that had taken place against its exclusion from the election. The court decided that only an admission -free election proposal existed and that there was no violation of the ban on the multiple application. Nevertheless, due to possible effects on the distribution of seats, the choice and the associated proposals were declared invalid. t-online reports .

The survey submitted two AfD election proposals shortly before the election. The first election proposal named the plaintiff as a confidant and the head of the AfD as the responsible party management, while the second election proposal mentioned the chairman of the AfD district association Saarbrücken-Land and the 1st deputy state chairman of the AfD Saar. However, these submissions were rejected by the election committee due to a violation of the ban on the multiple application. The AfD argued that the first proposal should have been allowed and the second not.

setbacks for the AfD

In addition, the AfD was not approved for the election of the regional assembly in Saarland. This was confirmed by the district election committee of the regional association during a meeting in Saarbrücken Castle. Wahl director Peter Gillo found that both lists that were submitted in March 2024 violate the ban on the multiple application. The exclusion of the AfD from the election means that the party cannot be selected at the regional assembly on June 9th. The Saarbrücker newspaper reports .

During the session there was a scandal when representative of both AfD camps contested the submission of a second list. The AfD confidence in René Selzer announced that he would file a criminal complaint for the counterfeit and claimed that the second list had never been set up. AfD state vice Dieter Müller said the second list was a list of area, which is usually permitted. However, election manager Gillo pointed out that it was also a area list. Müller finally admitted that there was a mistake in the list line -up, which led to the invalidity of both lists in accordance with the Local Election Act.

legal and political consequences

The AfD state chief Carsten Becker accused Müller a deception and emphasized that willful list prevention would have consequences for the party. Müller rejected an intention to deceive and made it clear that he had not received any preliminary information about the problem of the two lists. The legal and political developments around the local elections in Saarland show the tensions within the AfD and between the parties. Wahlrecht.de provides further information on the electoral system in Saarland, which provides for a ratio with closed lists.

The regional assembly in the Saarbrücken regional association is made up of 45 members, which are elected by the citizens of the ten associations belonging to the association. The term of office of the members is five years in which they decide on all self -administration matters of the regional association. With the invalidity of the choice and the associated legal uncertainties, it is uncertain how the regional association will react in the coming time.