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The Union parliamentary group could face a battle vote for the office of Vice President of the Bundestag: According to SPIEGEL information, several people have expressed interest in the office.
Parliamentary executive Michael Grosse-Brömer, Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters and the Minister of State for Integration, Annette Widmann-Mauz, all CDU, want to run for office.
If no amicable solution can be found by the decision in the coming week, a vote in the Union parliamentary group is also possible.
Apparently there are already attempts to prevent such a scenario.
A decision is expected by the weekend, reports the dpa news agency, citing parliamentary groups.
So far, however, none of the interested parties has withdrawn.
First, the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" reported on the personnel dispute.
CSU could stay away from voting
So far there have been no applicants from the CSU for the office of Vice President of the Bundestag.
In the Union, the post of Vice President usually goes to the CDU.
In the previous legislature it was different because the CDU, Wolfgang Schäuble, provided the president.
Former Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich of the CSU was a member of the Bundestag Presidium as Vice President.
According to reports, it is still unclear whether the CSU will even be able to vote in the decision that will be made in the coming week.
According to SPIEGEL information, there are apparently considerations in the top of the parliamentary group to avoid this.
Michael Grosse-Bröhmer is a clear favorite among the Christian Socials.
If elected, it could exacerbate the problem of women in the Union.
The future President of the Bundestag, and thus successor to Wolfgang Schäuble, is to be the SPD politician Bärbel Bas in the newly constituted parliament.
Traditionally, the strongest parliamentary group is entitled to the post of President of Parliament - after the federal election at the end of September, the Social Democrats.
Other parties reject the election of AfD representatives to the presidium
According to the rules of procedure of the Bundestag, each parliamentary group has at least one seat on the parliamentary presidium.
The presidium members are, however, elected by the MPs and they are free to decide how they vote.
This is likely to mean that the AfD will again not be represented in the new Bundestag presidium.
The party had failed in the past legislative period with various attempts to send someone to the Bundestag presidium.
Several candidates from the parliamentary group for the vice post failed in several ballots.
The AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag announced on Tuesday that it had agreed on the Thuringian MP Kaufmann as a candidate for the office of Vice President of the Bundestag.
Kaufmann had won a direct mandate in the constituency in the federal election.
The engineer with a doctorate is currently still a member of parliament and vice-president in the Thuringian state parliament.
The AfD has tried everything in the past four years to make parliamentarism and democracy contemptible, said a spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group to the Web.de portal.
The FDP parliamentary group continues to refuse to elect an AfD candidate to the Bundestag presidium.
Which person the AfD nominates for the post does not play a role in the decision for the FDP.
In the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, too, nothing has changed in terms of voting behavior compared to the previous legislative period.
Kaufmann could not count on many votes here either.
For the SPD and the Greens, the two First Parliamentary Managing Directors Carsten Schneider and Britta Haßelmann pointed out that the AfD had recently become more radical.
anr / vme / AFP
