Eligibility of constitutional court judges and pre-exclusion of election appeals under § 26 EuWG and § 24 BVerfGG

The Federal Constitutional Court dismissed a complaint challenging the eligibility of members of its Second Senate to exercise judicial office as inadmissible and separately rejected an election appeal as unfounded, ordering no further written reasoning. The dispute concerned two distinct procedural matters: a motion for recusal against the Senate members and a subsequent election contest filed under the European Union Act. The court found no basis for excluding the judges from their duties and determined the election appeal lacked merit, relying on a prior reasoned letter from the rapporteur. The decision was grounded in the procedural provisions of § 24 sentence 2 of the Federal Constitutional Court Act (BVerfGG) in conjunction with § 26 paragraph 3 sentence 3 of the European Union Act (EuWG), which permitted the court to omit a detailed justification for the rejection of the election appeal based on the earlier communication.