Well....NO.
The CDU Party has taken a legal case all the way to the Karlsruhe Constitutional Court....in which the push is on to say in various districts off Berlin....a crappy election effort was conducted.
The fact that the state election (at the same time) has already been forced to re-occur? That only adds pressure to the Court.
Adding to the mess? It's not just the 432 districts of Berlin that the complaint is about....it extends out to several other neighborhoods (example: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Steglitz-Zehlendorf).
The gamble here? If the court agrees, and the federal election of September 2021 occurs....there's probably fewer votes in the city for the SPD and Greens.....with the CDU and probably AfD likely to gain....meaning some seats in the Bundestag would flip over.
Odds of this? I would suspect the Court is looking for any possible exit to keep from forcing another repeat.
Has anything like this ever occurred before? No....from what journalists suggest....it's never reached this stage.
If the court said yes....do a repeat? I would assume in 60 days....the city would attempt another election (probably late October or early November).
The key trigger to all of this? Covid vaccinations. You see....once the vax stuff started....Berlin said if you volunteered to be a poll-player.....you got into the first line in early 2021....several months ahead of others. So a bunch of folks said they would volunteer....then UN-volunteered shortly before the fall election....leaving the poll-player listings short-manned.
You can laugh about the way this was handled, but it was all legit.
(Footnote: having the election on the same day as a Marathon being run in the city.....was also a stupid move).
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