Disqualification of a judge for bias in an electoral review proceeding: substantive inadequacy of the recusal request

The Federal Constitutional Court dismissed the motion for recusal of a judge as inadmissible, ruling that the requester failed to provide sufficient grounds. The dispute arose in an electoral review proceeding where the motion alleged a suspicion of bias; however, the Court found the submissions entirely unsuited to substantiate such a suspicion. Applying the doctrine that the judge does not recuse themselves from deciding on their own recusal motion unless a concrete suspicion of bias is demonstrably present, the Court held the request unsubstantiated and therefore inadmissible.