Candidate raises objection to OB election in Ulm

Municipalities - Candidate raises objection to OB election in Ulm

One of five candidates has lodged an objection to the mayoral election in Ulm on December 3. As the regional council in Tübingen explained on Tuesday, this is a candidate who is not eligible for the run-off election next Sunday (December 17) due to his result. The regional council did not disclose who this candidate was. The "Südwest Presse" had initially reported.

According to the regional council, the candidate had raised doubts about the established election result. The authority has announced that it will examine the objection, but a decision is no longer expected this year.

The run-off election is not initially affected by the objection. However, should the first election be declared invalid, the run-off election would be invalid and a re-run or new election would have to take place.

None of the five candidates received more than 50 percent of the vote in the mayor's election on December 3. For this reason, a run-off election between the first-placed incumbent Gunter Czisch (CDU) and the second-placed Martin Ansbacher (SPD) is now necessary next Sunday.

According to the regional council, an election can be declared invalid if, among other things, electoral interference, voter fraud or voter coercion has been committed or if regulations regarding the determination and establishment of the election result have not been observed. "However, a mandatory requirement for an election to be annulled is that the election result would possibly have been different without the error," said a spokesperson for the regional council.

City of Ulm on the OB election

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1. The "Südwest Presse" reported that a candidate in Ulm's mayoral election lodged an objection due to his ineligibility for the run-off election.
2. The objection was raised by the candidate who did not meet the threshold in the first election, leading to the necessity of a run-off election in Ulm on December 17.
3. The run-off election in Ulm's mayoral race will take place between incumbent Gunter Czisch (CDU) and Martin Ansbacher (SPD), both from Baden-Württemberg.
4. The objection raised doubts about the established election result, prompting the regional council in Tübingen to examine it next year.
5. If the first election in Ulm is declared invalid due to voter fraud, voter coercion, electoral interference, or violation of regulations, a re-run or new election would be necessary, according to the spokesperson for the regional council.
6. The candidates in the Mayoral election in Ulm are closely monitoring the objection process and the selection of stitches in Baden-Württembern's municipal politics.

Source: www.stern.de