Bundesland’s “Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht” (BSW) will file a lawsuit with the Federal Constitutional Court to seek a recount of the 2025 federal election, and it presented its case notes on Monday. The BSW narrowly missed the 5‑percent threshold in that election.
Founder Sahra Wagenknecht explained that the party is not suing to gain a seat in the Bundestag; rather it wants the correct determination of what voters cast their ballots for a year ago. “It is quite plausible that the 9,500 votes we claim to have missed would change the composition of the Bundestag” she said, adding that the current coalition probably lacks democratic legitimacy.
In December 2025 the Bundestag opposed a new count. The majority of the election‑review committee had rejected the BSW’s complaints as baseless, stating that every individual claim was disproved and that no voting errors had been found. The federal election controller and the 16 state election controllers had carefully followed each issue raised.
Party secretary‑general Fabio De Masi disagreed. He argued that the Bundestag contains statistical anomalies that, when examined, often reveal votes that appear to have been withheld from the BSW and remain unexplained. He referred to a 1991 Federal Constitutional Court ruling on a state election, which held that when results are extremely close and counting errors are established, a full recount must be carried out.
Amira Mohamed Ali, also a BSW party leader, accused the Bundestag of rejecting a recount on an “unfounded justification”. She presented figures suggesting that BSW votes might have been miscounted as votes for “Bündnis Deutschland”. “The Union, SPD, Greens and Left will simply refuse to see that the BSW had valid reasons for a recount, and that after a recount it will likely sit in the Bundestag” she said. Ali urged that a legal clarification by the Federal Constitutional Court is essential.
