Dispute over new Bundestag seating arrangements: FDP criticizes "buttocks geography of the 1950s"

According to a report, the FDP MPs want to sit in the middle, where they are politically located.

However, the CDU is already there.

Berlin - The FDP parliamentary group would like to swap places with the Union in the plenary hall of the Bundestag.

As the

reported, the still incumbent Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble proposed a new seating arrangement in which the election result was converted to the number of seats in the first row.

However, nothing should be changed in the previous distribution of the parliamentary groups in the hall.

So far, the AfD sits on the far right - as seen from the President of the Bundestag -, next to it the FDP, then the Union, the Greens, the SPD and on the left the parliamentary group of the Left.

New seating arrangements in the Bundestag: FDP would like to move to the center

"Actually, it might not matter who sits where in the Bundestag, but only until a backbencher gets a better seat than the chairwoman or a parliamentary group wants as many seats in row 1 as another, larger parliamentary group," writes

- Politics editor Justus Bender.

According to the report, not only the AfD is dissatisfied with the seating arrangements.

But especially the FDP.

In many state parliaments she sits in the middle of the plenary, not next to the AfD - and ideologically, the liberals see themselves in the middle, not on the right.

The place there since 1949 is an outdated "buttocks geography of the fifties," the newspaper quoted an FDP MP as saying.

FDP criticizes Bundestag seat neighbor AfD: "Sayings are often unbearable"

According to dpa on Sunday, the FDP parliamentary group said that exploratory talks with the SPD and the Greens were currently the priority for the Liberals.

At a later point in time, however, the parliamentary group is definitely aiming to change the seating arrangement, "because we see ourselves as the force of the political center".

In addition, the FDP parliamentary group had had very bad experiences as a neighbor of the AfD in the plenary hall over the past four years.

The sayings from the ranks of the AfD parliamentary group are often “simply unbearable”, especially for female MPs.

However, the CDU does not want to vacate its place in the middle without a fight, but rather to stick to the previous seating arrangement.