The Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) plans to file a lawsuit with the Federal Constitutional Court demanding a complete recount of the 2025 Bundestag election. The party presented its arguments at a press conference on Monday after narrowly missing the five‑percent electoral threshold in the election.
BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht emphasized that the party is not suing to simply secure a seat. “We are not filing a lawsuit to obtain a spot in the Bundestag” she said. “We are demanding a proper investigation into what voters chose a year ago. And it is reasonably apparent that the 9,500 votes we say are missing could tilt the outcome in favour of an entirely different coalition” she added, pointing to the current majority in the Bundestag. She suggested that the present coalition likely lacks a democratic mandate.
In December 2025, the Bundestag opposed any new recount. The majority of the election‑review committee had already dismissed the BSW’s complaints as unfounded, claiming each alleged error had been refuted and no voting irregularities detected. According to the federal election commissioner and the 16 state election commissioners, every single tip had been examined meticulously.
Party chairman Fabio De Masi disputes that assessment. “The Bundestag has statistical anomalies that, when investigated, nearly always turn out to be votes that were improperly left out of the BSW count” he said. “The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in 1991, in a state‑parliament election, that in a very close result with confirmed counting errors a full recount must be carried out”.
Amira Mohamed Ali, co‑chair of the BSW, accused the Bundestag of rejecting a recount for “an almost silent justification”. She presented data suggesting that BSW votes may have been mistakenly tallied as votes for the “Bündnis Deutschland” party. “The major parties-FDP, SPD, Greens and the Left-simply refuse to accept that the BSW had legitimate grounds for a recount and that a correct tally would almost certainly place the BSW in the Bundestag” she said. “Therefore, a judicial clarification from the Federal Constitutional Court is indispensable”.