Press release no. 06/19 of 6. März 2019
2019 European Election: first meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee on 15 March 2019
WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Returning Officer, the first meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee on the 2019 European Election will be held in the German Bundestag building in Berlin, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus (entrance Adele-Schreiber-Krieger-Str. 1), room 3.101 (Anhörungssaal) on Friday, 15 March 2019, at 11 a.m. At that meeting, the Federal Electoral Committee will decide about the admission of parties’ and other political organisations’ lists for individual Länder and lists for all Länder.
The Federal Electoral Committee consists of the Federal Returning Officer as chairperson, eight persons entitled to vote who have been appointed by him as assessors, and two judges of the Federal Administrative Court (Section 4 of the European Elections Act in conjunction with Section 9 subsection 2 of the Federal Elections Act). There is a deputy for each of them. The Federal Electoral Committee for the 2019 Election to the European Parliament has the following members:
| Chairman: | Dr. Georg Thiel Federal Returning Officer |
Deputy: | Dr. Sabine Bechtold Deputy Federal Returning Officer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessor: | Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner (CDU) | Deputy: | Dr. Peter Dany (CDU) |
| Assessor: | Hartmut Geil (GRÜNE) | Deputy: | Emily May Büning (GRÜNE) |
| Assessor: | Petra Kansy (CDU) | Deputy: | Dr. Detlef Gottschalck (CDU) |
| Assessor: | Georg Pazderski (AfD) | Deputy: | Hans-Holger Malcomeß (AfD) |
| Assessor: | Bianca Rabl (CSU) | Deputy: | Florian Bauer (CSU) |
| Assessor: | Dr. Johannes Risse (SPD) | Deputy: | Thomas Notzke (SPD) |
| Assessor: | Jörg Schindler (DIE LINKE) | Deputy: | Kerstin Pohnke (DIE LINKE) |
| Assessor: | Dr. Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast (SPD) | Deputy: | Monika Zeeb (SPD) |
| Member: | Presiding Judge at the Federal Administrative Court Jürgen Vormeier |
Deputy: | Judge at the Federal Administrative Court Dr. Peter Martini |
| Member: | Judge at the Federal Administrative Court Dr. Kirsten Kuhlmann |
Deputy: | Judge at the Federal Administrative Court Dr. Silke Wittkopp |
Comprehensive information on the 2019 European Election is provided on the website of the Federal Returning Officer at https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de.
For further information:
Office of the Federal Returning Officer
tel: +49 611 75-4863
www.bundeswahlleiter.de/contact