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Is this Germany's 'Stop the Steal'?

The party that missed the Bundestag by fractions of a point in February is reluctant to accept the result... but do they have a point?

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Rachel Stern
Nov 22, 2025
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Dear Reader,

Modern Germany has never witnessed a party edge so close to entering the Bundestag — only to fall short by such a small margin. In February’s federal election, the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) missed the five-percent threshold by just 9,529 votes, a difference of 0.019 percent — not bad for a party founded just a year earlier that still h…

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