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Yvonne Magwas is supposed to run for the Union as Vice President of the Bundestag
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Tobias Koch
According to SPIEGEL information, the chairman of the group of women in the Union parliamentary group, Yvonne Magwas (CDU), is to run for the post of Vice-President of the Bundestag. The executive board of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag agreed on this on Monday. The group still has to vote in the evening. The "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" and the dpa had reported on it. Monika Grütters (CDU) and Annette Widmann-Mauz (CDU) are said to have withdrawn their application for the post. The previous Parliamentary Managing Director, Michael Grosse-Brömer, had also previously expressed interest. According to SPIEGEL information, he will not run either.
The decision on the Union candidate should be made at the Union group meeting on Monday afternoon at the latest.
A fight vote between the various candidates has now probably been prevented.
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.
Probably not a vice president of the AfD
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 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.
svs / vme / dpa
