Bärbel Bas is the new President of the Bundestag.
She was elected on Tuesday in the first session of the Bundestag.
The AfD caused a scandal - the situation in the news ticker.
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The result is there.
Bas announced that Aydan Özoğuz had 544 votes.
Yvonne Magwas and Claudia Roth received 600 votes and 565 votes.
The AfD politician Michael Kaufmann, on the other hand, only receives 118 votes.
Petra Pau gets 484 votes, Wolfgang Kubicki 564 votes.
369 votes are a condition for election to the deputy office.
The elected candidates accept their election.
Congratulations in the Bundestag plenum follow.
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The result of the election of the deputies of Bundestag President Bärbel Bas is eagerly awaited.
Meanwhile, there is apparently rumbling in the Union faction.
According to a media report, several members of the CDU and CSU are said to have been dissatisfied with Wolfgang Schäuble's departure as President of the Bundestag.
This was almost "forgotten", as reported by Business Insider magazine.
Group leader Ralph Brinkhaus gave Bärbel Bas a lot of time to introduce himself to the parliamentary group, but hardly any Schäuble to say goodbye.
According to Business Insider, participants reported that Schäuble wanted to leave the room without a word at the end of the meeting, but was then fetched back.
Brinkhaus is said to have said a few words of thanks afterwards.
"That would not have happened with the former parliamentary group leader Volker Kauder," a participant is quoted by the magazine.
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All votes to elect the deputies of Bärbel Bas were cast.
The first Bundestag session of the legislative period was interrupted.
A result of the election is expected between 3:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
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Bärbel Bas is the new President of the Bundestag.
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The election of the deputies of Bärbel Bas has begun. The SPD has nominated Aydan Özoğuz, former integration commissioner of the federal government, for this. Yvonne Magwas was appointed from the ranks of the Union. However, three familiar faces want to keep the office: Claudia Roth from the Greens, Petra Pau from the Left and Wolfgang Kubicki from the FDP.
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In her first speech as President of the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas decided to be the “President of all Members”.
In her remarks there was also a brief but very emotional moment in the Bundestag.
Bas was reminiscent of Thomas Oppermann.
The former Vice President of the Bundestag died unexpectedly about a year ago while filming ZDF. * She learned a lot from Oppermann.
He had mastered the "parliamentary craft", "like hardly anyone else".
In moments like her appointment as President of the Bundestag, she realizes "that he is missing".
Bas then paused briefly - and thus ensured several seconds of silence in the plenary.
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"I accept the choice," Bas replies to Schäuble's question.
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Bärbel Bas next to Olaf Scholz in the Bundestag.
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Wolfgang Schäuble has closed the election.
724 votes were cast.
576 MPs voted yes.
So Bärbel Bas is the new President of the German Bundestag.
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In the meantime, names of MPs are no longer read out.
It is likely that the votes will now be counted.
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Now all MPs are called individually.
This procedure is done alphabetically.
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Wolfgang Schäuble explains numerous formalities of choice.
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The AfD's amendments were rejected in the vote against the AfD's votes.
The election of the President of the Bundestag begins.
Bärbel Bas is proposed by the SPD.
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Jan Korte, parliamentary manager of the Left, accused Stephan Brandner of “driving up” the “brown disgust scale” in the first session of the Bundestag.
Brandner had previously cited Willy Brandt, who had fought against the Nazis, to support his demand for a change in the rules of procedure.
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Stephan Brandner from the AfD throws himself in his speech directly on gender in the Bundestag, which he describes as "nonsense".
A “large majority” of the citizens in Germany is against gender, hence the request to change the rules of procedure.
He calls the AfD proposal for the election quorum for the Federal Chancellor “dare more democracy” - and earns indignant and scornful laughter from parliament.
Attacks by the Greens and FDP on the AfD in the Bundestag
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Marco Buschmann, First Parliamentary Managing Director of the FDP parliamentary group, strives for a "dignified handling of the responsibility" that the citizens have given the Bundestag.
Modernizing the rules of procedure of the Bundestag makes sense.
But he rejected the AfD amendment to lower the quorum for the election and deselection of a Federal Chancellor, referring to the experience from the Weimar Republic.
This ultimately led to the dictatorship.
The aim of the AfD is to "undermine trust in the democratic institutions of our Basic Law".
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Britta Hasselmann, parliamentary manager of the Greens parliamentary group, began her speech with an attack on the AfD.
“The Bundestag's rules of procedure are binding for everyone,” she said.
Two amendments by the AfD on the election of the Federal Chancellor and on gender are therefore available - Hasselmann considers both to be "nonsense".
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Wolfgang Schäuble's speech is now over.
In it he acted statesmanlike as usual and emphasized the great tasks Germany would face in the next four years.
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The parliamentary managing director of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Michael Grosse-Brömer, said with a view to Gauland that whoever describes the darkest chapter of German history as "fly shit" has already disqualified himself.
Grosse-Brömer also criticized efforts by the FDP to change the seating arrangements in the Bundestag “with a crowbar”.
This is not a good style: "I feel a touch of arrogance of power."
AfD scandal right at the beginning of the first Bundestag session
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Before that, there was a scandal in the speech by AfD MP Ben Baumann.
The parliamentary manager of his group emphasized: “For almost two centuries it has been a fixed parliamentary custom for a so-called senior president to open the session.
And that was always, out of respect for age, the oldest member of parliament. ”All the Bundestag had adhered to the rule, only in 1933 an exception was made with Hermann Göring, said Baumann.
Gauland is the "oldest and most experienced" in the Bundestag.
A refusal of the allocation of the age president to the AfD is a "lowering of millions of voters".
SPD politician Carsten Schneider described the comparison drawn by the AfD politician with the Weimar Republic as “cheek”.
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Wolfgang Schäuble in the Bundestag.
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An application by the AfD to name Alexander Gauland instead of Wolfgang Schäuble as the Bundestag's senior president was rejected by the Bundestag.
Schäuble subsequently announced: "I'm delighted to take on the role."
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The first session of the newly elected Bundestag begins.
Age President Schäuble first explains numerous formalities.
3G regulation at the first session of the German Bundestag
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The first session of the 20th German Bundestag takes place under special Corona * conditions. The 3G regime applies in Parliament. This means that only MPs who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, tested negative for Sars-CoV-2 or have recovered from Covid-19 are allowed to enter the plenary session. Corresponding evidence must be submitted to the Bundestag doctor in advance of the meeting. The tests must not be older than 24 hours.
If this is the case, the MPs will receive a black, red and gold bracelet as a sign of their 3G proof.
MPs who refuse to accept the 3G regulation must sit in one of the grandstands.
There, for example, seats are kept free for MPs who are concerned about the lack of distance regulation in the plenary.
Stephan Protschka, member of the Bundestag for the AfD, announced on Twitter, for example, that he would take a seat in the stands: "Tomorrow I will take a seat in the visitors' stand in the Bundestag because I am unwilling to disclose my state of health," he wrote on Monday .
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Wolfgang Schäuble at the service before the first session of the new Bundestag in Berlin.
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First report from Tuesday, October 26th,
2021
, 9:30 a.m .:
Berlin - Around four weeks after the federal election in 2021 *, the 20th German Bundestag will meet for the first time on Tuesday (October 26th, 2021).
The background to this is a requirement of the Basic Law, which states that the elected parliament must meet no later than the 30th day after the election.
The Bundestag session will be chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble, senior president (seated in parliament since 1972) and outgoing Bundestag president.
Schäuble would have liked to remain President of the Bundestag.
However, the occupation of the second largest office in the state is incumbent on the largest parliamentary group, i.e. the SPD *.
Several days ago it became clear who would be Schäuble's successor: Bärbel Bas has already been nominated by the Social Democratic Party.
Your choice is considered safe.
Federal election 2021: Blockade of the AfD candidate as vice
The Union, which suffered a historic defeat, has also put up a candidacy, but for the office of Vice President: Yvonne Magwas is considered a promising candidate for the CDU * and CSU *. The former integration commissioner of the federal government, Aydan Özoguz, was proposed from the ranks of the SPD. In addition, three familiar faces will again be deputies: Claudia Roth from the Greens *, Petra Pau from the Left * and Wolfgang Kubicki from the FDP *. The AfD * parliamentary group is also sending Michael Kaufmann into the race as a possible deputy for the new President of the Bundestag. The editorial network Germany reports that there should be a broad alliance against the AfD candidate among the parliamentary groups.A spokesman for the left group said: "We do not support fascists."
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The 20th German Bundestag will meet for the first time on Tuesday (October 26th, 2021).
(Archive photo)
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The Bundestag session is scheduled to begin around 11 a.m.
(tu / kke with dpa / AFP)
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