Election review complaint dismissed summarily

BVerfG 2 BvC 42/14Bverfg / Division 2Jul 20, 2016Dismissed

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Omnilex summary

The Federal Constitutional Court summarily rejected an election review complaint. It stated that the complaint had no prospect of success for the reasons given in the rapporteur’s letter of 14 April 2016 and, under § 24 sentence 2 BVerfGG, provided no further reasons.

Omnilex headnote

§ 24 S. 2 BVerfGG; election review complaint may be rejected without further reasons if the Court considers it manifestly unfounded or otherwise without prospect of success. The Court may confine itself to referring to reasons previously communicated by the rapporteur and omit a full statement of reasons.

Full text

BVerfG — 2 BvC 42/14, Beschluss

Entscheidungsdatum: 2016-07-20

Aktenzeichen: 2 BvC 42/14

ECLI: ECLI:DE:BVerfG:2016:cs20160720.2bvc004214

Dokumenttyp: Beschluss

Normen: § 24 S 2 BVerfGG, § 48 BVerfGG

Spruchkörper: 2. Senat

Titelzeile

Verwerfung (a-limine-Abweisung) einer Wahlprüfungsbeschwerde ohne weitere Begründung

Tenor

Die Wahlprüfungsbeschwerde wird verworfen.

Gründe

1 Der Wahlprüfungsbeschwerde bleibt aus den im Schreiben des Berichterstatters vom 14. April 2016 genannten Gründen der Erfolg versagt. Gemäß § 24 Satz 2 BVerfGG wird von einer weiteren Begründung abgesehen.

Keywords

election reviewsummary rejectionadmissibilityconstitutional courtreasoning omitted

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Key legal question

Whether the election review complaint should be entertained or was to be summarily rejected.

Extracted holding

The complaint was rejected without further reasoning; the Court relied on the reasons stated in the rapporteur’s letter of 2016-04-14 and dispensed with a fuller explanation under § 24 sentence 2 BVerfGG.

Extracted reasoning

The Court found no basis for success and invoked § 24 sentence 2 BVerfGG to omit any additional reasoning.

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