The German Election Commission ruled on Thursday that the German Communist Party (DKP) will be temporarily barred from running in the federal parliamentary elections on September 26 due to non-compliance with the necessary formalities.

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The Commission found that the DKP, founded in 1968, lost its status as a political party due to the fact that it repeatedly failed to submit the required reports on its activities to the authorities within the prescribed time frame..

The party, which won only 11,558 votes in 2017 by proportional vote nationwide, has four days to appeal the decision.. DKP rejected this decision and announced that it would appeal..

At the same time, the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) was admitted to the elections, which gained 29 785 votes in the last elections..

On Thursday, the commission began a two-day review of the registration of 87 small parties and associations to assess whether they comply with the law.. The parties that passed the commission must still provide the agreed number of signatures from sponsors.

According to the German electoral system, there is a 5 percent threshold for entry into parliament, which works against minor parties, splinter groups and independents..

The South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW), Germany's Danish minority party and the Frisian ethnic group, was also admitted to the elections.

The party hopes to win at least one seat in the Bundestag - this could be possible as the commission declared it a national minority party for which the 5 percent threshold does not apply.

Party III was also admitted to the elections, although the Federal Office for the Protection of the German Constitution classified it as an "

Federal Election Commissioner Thiel noted that the commission's review dealt only with procedural requirements, not content-related issues..

Six political groups are represented in the outgoing Bundestag: the conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Social Democrats (SPD), the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the liberal Free Democrats, the far left.