A-limine dismissal of European Parliament election review complaint

The Federal Constitutional Court dismissed an election review complaint without further written reasoning, leaving the election results and the decision of the European Parliament unchanged. The dispute concerned a challenge to the validity of elections for the European Parliament, where the complainant sought a judicial review of the electoral outcome. The Court rejected the complaint based on the arguments set out in a prior report by the designated judge, relying on § 26 para. 3 sentence 3 of the Statute for the Election of the Members of the European Parliament and § 24 sentence 2 of the Federal Constitutional Court Act, which permit the a-limine dismissal of inadmissible or manifestly unfounded constitutional complaints without a separate reasoned judgment.