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Claudia Roth will in all likelihood remain Vice President of the Bundestag of the Greens parliamentary group
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The previous Bundestag Vice-Presidents Claudia Roth (Greens) and Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) should continue to exercise their offices according to the will of their parliamentary groups.
The 66-year-old Roth should be nominated again in the afternoon by the Green MPs for the post in the parliamentary presidium, as parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt said on Monday before a parliamentary group meeting.
In all likelihood, the FDP parliamentary group will again nominate the 69-year-old Kubicki, as parliamentary director Marco Buschmann announced.
The long-time Green leader Roth is "committed to parliament, democracy and diversity in our country," emphasized Göring-Eckardt.
"That is why we are proud that we can nominate Claudia Roth."
Roth, who has been Vice President of the Bundestag since 2013, has applied for another nomination.
The parliamentary group will have to decide on this on Monday, but broad approval is considered certain.
Roth has no opponents.
In the FDP parliamentary group, Kubicki can count on great support for remaining in the Bundestag presidium, said Buschmann.
During his tenure since 2017, Kubicki has made a name for himself as the “voice of freedom”.
The Bundestag Presidium is to be re-elected in the constituent session of the 20th German Bundestag on Tuesday.
It was open until Monday afternoon who would take over the post intended for the CDU.
AfD candidate describes election as "litmus test for democracy"
The SPD politician Bärbel Bas is to become the President of Parliament.
According to Buschmann, Bas wanted to introduce himself to the FDP parliamentary group in the afternoon.
In principle, each parliamentary group receives a deputy post.
The AfD candidate Michael Kaufmann is likely to miss the necessary majority.
He described the election on Tuesday as the “litmus test for democracy”.
It remains to be seen whether, as in the previous legislative period, "some MPs prefer to focus on exclusion and division, or whether they actually set an example for democracy."
In the legislative period that was coming to an end, the AfD was not represented in the Bundestag Presidium.
According to the rules of procedure of the Bundestag, each parliamentary group is entitled to at least one seat on the parliamentary presidium, but the presidium members are elected by all members and they can freely decide how they vote.
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