Thu, 08 Sep 2005
By-Election in Dresden
MAG - Washington. The 2005 election drama adds another act. The election board of the Free State of Saxony announced on September 8, 2005 that the elections in the electoral district of Dresden have to be cancelled and newly arranged.
By statute, a
by-election needs to meet the requirements of §43
of the federal election code; Bundeswahlgesetz.
The rerun was caused by the sudden death of
Kerstin Lorenz, candidate for
the Nationalistic
Party of Germany, NPD on September 7, 2005. She
died at the age of 43 after suffering a cerebral apoplexy at
a campaign rally on September 5, 2005.
The exact date of the by-election has not yet been set.
There is general agreement, however, that the general federal elections to the diet in Berlin on September 18, 2005 will not produce
a final result. If there should be a narrow
majority after the general election, the electoral district 160 of
Dresden could decide the outcome for the nation.
Authorities are still verifying if it is possible to publish
a preliminary result on September 18. But the final result
of the 2005 elections will have to be postponed at least for several
weeks until the beautiful Saxon city has also
given their approximately 219,000 votes.
© German American Law Journal :: Washington USA
MAG - Washington. The 2005 election drama adds another act. The election board of the Free State of Saxony announced on September 8, 2005 that the elections in the electoral district of Dresden have to be cancelled and newly arranged.
© German American Law Journal :: Washington USA
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