Stephan Brandner (AFD) is no longer Chairman of the Legal Committee in the Bundestag. This was decided by MPs from the CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP, Greens and Leftists on Wednesday morning in their committee meeting.
The chairman has now taken over Brandner's previous deputy Heribert shepherd (CSU). The management of the legal committee is entitled to the AfD, but the party has decided not to propose a new committee chairman for the time being.
The AfD politician from Thuringia had, inter alia, triggered outrage with his reactions to the terrorist attack in Halle and filed a complaint in the Bundestag. Most recently, he denigrated the awarding of the Federal Cross of Merit to the AfD-critical musician Udo Lindenberg as a "Judas wage".
