Inter-state dispute rejected at threshold for failure to prove representative's power of attorney under § 22 Abs. 2 BVerfGG

The Federal Constitutional Court dismissed the application at the outset, ruling that it had not been validly filed because the applicant's representative failed to provide evidence of proper authorization despite repeated court demands. This procedural ruling in an inter-state dispute (Organstreitverfahren) means the case was not admissible and no substantive decision on the merits was reached, resulting in a procedural loss for the applicant. The decisive legal basis was Section 22(2) of the Federal Constitutional Court Act (BVerfGG), which mandates proof of the representative's power of attorney, and Section 24 Sentence 2 BVerfGG, which permitted the court to omit a further detailed justification for this dismissal due to the obvious procedural defect.