It's about a Bundestag session in the night from 27 to 28 June 2019, just before the summer break. In the early morning hours, Parliament passed three laws on data protection law. In the view of the AfD wrong.
Even during the session, the right-wing populists complained that there were too few MPs present and that the Bundestag did not have a quorum. More than half of the parliamentarians, ie 355 parliamentarians, would have to be in plenary. According to AfD, there were less than a hundred that night.
The group then asked for a "lamb-meat" - this is the procedure used to establish quorum in Parliament. The application was rejected. Now the right-wing populists failed again - before the Federal Constitutional Court.
The AFD threatens the court according to no serious disadvantage
The AfD had wanted to make an emergency application to prevent the three passed laws from coming into force. The judges rejected the application, however. The Second Senate chaired by the court president Andreas Voßkuhle justified his decision with the so-called impact assessment. Accordingly, the AfD threatens no serious disadvantage if the three laws now come into force, but later the unconstitutionality of the vote would be.
On the other hand, it was first up to the Federal President to examine the laws before his signature, Voßkuhle explained. The AfD wanted to achieve that Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier does not sign the laws. The rejection of the urgent application, however, does not mean a decision in the matter.
Bundestag Vice-President Claudia Roth von der Grünen and the board of directors had refused the Hammelsprung in the June meeting - a comparatively time-consuming measure. Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) later defended the decision. From the ranks of the right-wing populists, on the other hand, there was arbitrariness and a "breach of the law".
In a mutton jump, the deputies must leave the hall, before they then enter through several entrances back to the plenary. They are counted. If the meeting committee agrees that the quorum is in place, no mutton jump can be made.
