Jochen Riebel, chief of staff of the government of the German state of Hesse, waits for the beginning of the hearing in the courtroom of the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe December 5, 2000. The Federal Constitutional Court started hearing a complaint by the Hesse CDU state government against a decision by a court to investigate the 1999 regional election following a CDU (Christian Democratic Party) party funding scandal.