The state parliament in Stuttgart has confirmed an AfD candidate for the constitutional court.
It is unclear where the votes came from - but there is already an internal dispute among the Greens.
Update from July 23, 12.40 p.m.:
After an AfD candidate was elected as a constitutional judge in Baden-Württemberg, outrage over the role of the Greens is growing: The parliamentary group apparently abstained from some parts and justified this with a "continuous loop" from new AfD nominations .
After the state's Green Youth, well-known politicians from the SPD and the Left have now expressed their horror.
Prominent Greens also criticized - a member of the sharply rebuked parliamentary group is also Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann.
"I would have expected the Greens to be really more stable in the fight against the right," tweeted SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil.
Board member Aydan Özoguz wrote of an "incomprehensible" incident.
the AfD could have nominated a new candidate in every session & forced parliament to vote.
The result: a nomination loop.
Great platform for the AfD ... More: https://t.co/sGoNxHQoPi (2/2)
- Green parliamentary group BaWü 🌻 (@FraktionGruenBW) July 22, 2021
The grounds of the Greens parliamentary group in Baden-Württemberg were "100 percent unacceptable", ranted the former Green parliamentary group leader Renate Künast.
“In elections to a constitutional court, reducing the workload of the legislature must never be a criterion.
Never, ”she emphasized.
The PARTY member of the Bundestag Marco Bülow used the same horn.
On Twitter, he referred to the votes that have been going on for years on AfD Bundestag Vice President candidates: “Do you still have them all?
This is exactly what we have been doing in the Bundestag for four years in the loop in the election of the Bundestag Vice President. "" Oh!
That would be ... uh ... like in the Bundestag ", the Left MP Stefan Liebich teased in the short message service.
Grünen-Zoff after the election of an AfD constitutional judge: "Condemn decision"
Initial report:
Stuttgart - After the election of an AfD candidate in the constitutional court of Baden-Württemberg, there is an internal dispute among the Greens led by Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann: The Green Youth has sharply attacked the actions of their own parliamentary group.
“No abstention from fascists!
The vote in the state parliament for the election of an AfD candidate in the BW Constitutional Court should not have run like this, ”declared the state association spokesmen Sarah Heim and Aya Krkoutli on Friday.
"We condemn the decision to abstain from members of the AfD and expect a consistent and sincere stance against the law." One should never get used to the presence of the anti-constitutional AfD in committees.
AfD candidate for the Constitutional Court confirmed: where did the votes come from - even the CDU man was outraged
The AfD candidate Bert Matthias Gärtner was elected on Wednesday in the state parliament in the third ballot as a deputy member of the constitutional court without qualification for judicial office. Gärtner received 37 votes in favor, 77 members abstained, 32 voted no. However, the AfD parliamentary group only consists of 17 members - Gärtner was therefore elected to office by numerous abstentions and yes votes from other parties. At the beginning of July he had clearly failed in two ballots.
The parliamentary manager of the Greens, Uli Sckerl, said on Thursday: “There were only no votes and abstentions from our ranks.” At the same time, however, he indirectly justified the votes from other parliamentary groups for gardeners. If the majority of MPs had rejected Gärtner, the AfD parliamentary group could have nominated a new candidate at every meeting and force parliament into ballots, said Sckerl. "A nomination loop would have been the result - and each time this would have offered the AfD parliamentary group a platform and tied up resources."
But there was also criticism from the other parties.
The country chief of the CDU social wing, Christian Bäumler, called for the election of the AfD applicant to be processed by the parliamentary groups in the state parliament.
“If an AfD employee applies for the third power in the state, I expect a clear no from all parliamentary groups.
It is not enough to abstain, ”said Bäumler, who is himself a judge, of the German Press Agency.
The political firewall against the right is damaged by such actions.
"This is Thuringia in miniature," said the CDU state board member.
Baden-Württemberg: Landtag elects AfD candidate to the Constitutional Court - Bavaria has already experienced a scandal
The constitutional court of Baden-Wuerttemberg consists of nine judges - three professional judges, three judges qualified to hold judicial office and three people who do not have this qualification. The state parliament elects the members and their deputies for nine years. The court decides, among other things, on the interpretation of the state constitution, on appeals to election review decisions and referendums, and on disputes in referendums.
There are also honorary judges at the Bavarian Constitutional Court. They are determined by the state parliament. There was a scandal in autumn 2020 about the AfD local politician Rüdiger Imgart. The non-professional judge of the Bavarian Constitutional Court was seen in a corona demonstration that later escalated in front of the Reichstag building. (
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