Dresden's call: no postal voting! Go to the urn and choose on site!

Dresden's call: no postal voting! Go to the urn and choose on site!

Dresden, Deutschland - The Bundestag election is just around the corner and time is pushing! On February 23, 2025, citizens choose a new Bundestag, but preparations are extremely difficult. In Dresden, where the challenges are particularly large, the Mayor Markus Blocher urgently appeals to the voters not to apply for postal voting. The problem: 50 percent of the voters would vote by post, but the election documents could be delivered at the earliest 17 days before the election date, which puts many voters under pressure. The election proposals have to be submitted on January 20 - a tighter schedule! In addition, the election time is unfavorable because it falls into the Saxon school holidays, which makes participation more difficult for many parents and school children, as welt.de reported.

TV debates and election campaign events

In the middle of these turbulent preparations, ARD and ZDF accelerate: they announce several TV formats for the Bundestag election to comprehensively inform the voters and promote participation. On February 13th, an intensive round of discussion with the Chancellor candidates of the SPD, CDU, Greens and AfD will take place on ZDF in the program "Clar Text". Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, Robert Habeck and Alice Weidel will answer questions from the citizens for 140 minutes, such as "https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/bundesagen-wahlkampf-wahlen--liveblog-150.html"> ZDF.de . The ARD also plans special formats to make the election campaign more exciting. On February 17th there should be a "election arena" in which the candidates of the most important parties collide and ask themselves the questions of voters.

The choice promises to become a hot duel, not only between the big parties, but also between the smaller ones who also want to be heard. While the election campaign is already in full swing, it remains to be seen how the current political tensions will affect voter behavior.