The AfD has long since established itself as a constant in the Bundestag and has learned to make demands - in a legal dispute it wants to assert its claim to an office.
Karlsruhe - plaintiff the AfD *, defendant the Bundestag presidium.
On Wednesday, the Federal Constitutional Court * in Karlsruhe will decide the fate of the AfD on the way to filling the Bundestag presidium.
Shortly before the end of the legislative period, the protracted dispute over the appointment of Vice President of the Bundestag is to be resolved.
The AfD had filed a lawsuit in November 2020 because it was the only party represented in parliament not to be represented in the presidium. * All applications from AfD MPs failed because of the required majority of votes.
According to a regulation from 1994, which can be found in the rules of procedure of the Bundestag, each parliamentary group is entitled to at least one seat on the parliamentary presidium.
However, the members of the Presidium are freely elected by all MPs and can only move into the Presidium with a clear majority.
Lawsuit by the AfD in Karlsruhe: entitlement to seats in the parliamentary presidium
At the beginning of the legislative period in October 2017, the AfD proposed its MP Albrecht Glaser as Vice President, but he did not get enough votes in three ballots.
Even in the current legislative period, the AfD did not succeed with four other candidates and one candidate.
In June of this year, the AfD MP Harald Weyel could not get enough votes for a seat on the presidium.
The parliamentary group sees itself "blatantly disadvantaged" because it has not been granted any Bundestag vice-presidency during the entire legislative period, a spokesman said at the request of the dpa.
Since all inter-parliamentary possibilities have been exhausted, they can only appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court.
Legal dispute between the AfD and the Federal Presidium over appointments
This is now supposed to check whether the Bundestag has violated the parliamentary group's rights by not electing any of those proposed by it to the presidium.
The test should show whether the rejection "was made for inappropriate reasons", as the court announced in its annual forecast.
First of all, Karlsruhe * will decide on Wednesday on the party's application for a temporary injunction.
According to the court, the AfD wants to oblige the Bundestag to take “provisional procedural arrangements for the electoral process”.
In addition, a decision will be made on the urgent motion of an individual member of the Bundestag on the question of whether MPs are allowed to propose their own candidate from the second ballot.
The President of the Bundestag is currently Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU), followed by three deputies and two deputies: Dagmar Ziegler (SPD), Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP), Petra Pau (left), Claudia Roth (Greens) and Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU). The Presidium and Parliament will only exist in this composition for a few more weeks: a new Bundestag will be elected on September 26 *. The composition of the presidium must then be re-elected - this again gives the AfD the opportunity to secure seats should it make it back to the Bundestag for this year's elections.
(dpa / klb) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.