The AfD member of the Bundestag Michael Kaufmann has been elected by his party as a candidate for the office of Bundestag Vice President.
The AfD group announced on Tuesday.
Kaufmann has been Vice President of the Thuringian State Parliament since March 2020.
Berlin / Erfurt - According to the rules of procedure, each parliamentary group may be represented on the Presidium by at least one vice-president.
In the current legislative period, however, all six AfD candidates for this post failed in the election in the Bundestag.
The parliamentarians often stated that they did not want to be represented externally by the AfD in this office.
The President of the Bundestag is the second man in the state after the Federal President - and thus one of the highest representatives of the country.
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Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) said in the summer that a parliamentary group had no legal right to the office of Bundestag Vice-President. There is only an "agreement" that each parliamentary group can propose a candidate, so Schäuble's reading of the rules of procedure. Then the following applies: "Only those who receive the votes of the majority of the members of the Bundestag in a secret ballot will become vice-president." And whoever does not get them will not become vice-president. The AfD took their concerns to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. However, the court rejected the party's urgent application.
Stephan Brandner, chairman of the Thuringian regional group of the AfD in the Bundestag, was optimistic about the party candidate on Tuesday.
"An AfD member who had even won the trust of a left-wing prime minister and was able to convince him that he elected him will certainly be able to win the necessary majorities in the Bundestag," said Brandner, referring to Kaufmann's office in Thuringia Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left).
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