Union surprises with personnel plan - AfD scandal and new armbands flood in the plenary session

There are historical moments on Tuesday around the Bundestag.

The Union surprises in advance with a personnel decision.

The AfD is preparing for the next Zoff.

• There is an important date in the German Bundestag on Tuesday (October 26th): the parliament will be reconstituted after the Bundestag election.

• The most symbolic moments: Age President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) opens the legislature with a speech, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gives the Chancellor and ministers the certificates of discharge.

• But the Bundestag Presidium is also elected.

  The body is becoming more feminine - thanks in part to a small surprise at the Union.

  New corona rules must also be examined in the plenary.

• This news ticker is updated regularly.

Berlin - Exactly 30 days after the federal election * the time has come: On Tuesday (October 26th) the Bundestag * will be constituted - now the parliament, which Germany will probably legislate for the next four years, is also taking shape physically.

Bundestag is constituted: AfD-crucial question and Merkel's formal departure on Tuesday

A number of defining decisions and moments are pending: The President of the Bundestag and her deputy are elected. On Monday, the parties set the course for this, including a surprise at the Union. The question of whether the AfD will also have a position in the Bundestag presidium should again cause controversy, the party puts pressure on in advance.

In addition, Chancellor Angela Merkel * and her cabinet will receive the certificates of discharge from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

From now on, you are only “managing” in office, which is linked to the move from the government bench to the official gallery on Tuesday.

The FDP took this as an opportunity to remind the outgoing Chancellor of the “petrification command”.

But there is also another visual innovation.

For the time being, at least: there will be a lot of MPs with distinctive armbands.

Bundestag elects its new presidium: Most of the candidates have been chosen - Schäuble resigns

Formally, the office of President of the Bundestag is the second highest in the German state - after the Federal President. In practice, the members of the Presidium primarily lead the work in plenary and in parliament. And set the atmosphere in the Bundestag. Norbert Lammert (CDU), for example, made some positive headlines with humorous and thoughtful tones *. But the office also plays a coordinating role in the desperately sought-after reform of the electoral law. Lammer's successor, Wolfgang Schäuble (also CDU) would have liked to take over the office again. That now prevents the election result. Perhaps precisely because of the weak election campaign of Schäuble's preferred candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet: The President of the Bundestag is traditionally the strongest parliamentary group. This is now the

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She is now sending MP

into the race *.

Group leader Rolf Mützenich expected a “good result”.

The SPD can also nominate a deputy:

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There are probably no changes in the

: The two parliamentary groups want

to send

the previous Schäuble-Vizes

and

into the race again.

The

has also decided again for its incumbent: with 92.1 percent of the vote, the parliamentary group chose

as a candidate.

The election by the Bundestag should become a matter of form.

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She is to become the new President of the Bundestag: Bärbel Bas (SPD).

© Bernd von Jutrczenka / dpa

Bundestag: Union agrees on female candidate and taunts the election result again - AfD dispute threatens

On the other hand, there was a surprise at the Union: after Schäuble, the

now also

want

to send a woman to the Bundestag presidium.

The CDU politician

is to become Vice President of the Bundestag.

The 41-year-old Magwas is the leader of the group of women in the Union faction;

Group leader Ralph Brinkhaus called her an experienced parliamentarian who, as a mother, is in the middle of life.

Brinkhaus and CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt were at the

same time angry that the Union parliamentary group only got one post in the Bundestag presidium and not two - after all, the election results were only just behind the SPD.

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CDU politician Yvonne Magwas speaks at a plenary session of the German Bundestag.

© Jörg Carstensen / dpa / archive image

The anger of the

could be much greater on Tuesday

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It had already failed in the election period that is now ending with six candidates in three ballots each.

Now the right-wing populist party is sending the new MP

into the race, who has experience as Vice-President of the Thuringian State Parliament *, which is partly affected by turbulence.

He chaired a meeting there on Friday.

There are many indications that Kaufmann will not get the necessary number of votes either.

The day before the vote, Kaufmann spoke of a “litmus test for democracy”.

Bundestag: Merkel and cabinet receive certificates of discharge - Schäuble gives the opening speech

There is also a historical moment in the house: Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will attend the session of the Bundestag in the morning and hand over the certificates of discharge to the Chancellor and the members of the government in Bellevue Palace in the afternoon, this program item is scheduled for 5.30 p.m.

Steinmeier will, however, ask Merkel and the ministers in an obligatory manner to remain in office.

The new legislature will be opened by a different one: Schäuble will probably give a speech around 11.00 a.m. and the MPs will probably get in the mood for the four years ahead of them.

He has been represented in the Bundestag since 1972 and is therefore age-president according to the new rule.

Corona rules in the new Bundestag: black, red and gold armbands - or off to the stands

For the first time in months, the seats in the Reichstag building will be fully occupied on Tuesday.

The corona-related distance rules with empty seats do not apply.

Strict 3G regulations apply for this.

All MPs must provide evidence that they have been vaccinated, recovered or have just been tested.

Only then are they allowed into the plenary hall.

Anyone who proves that they meet the 3G rules gets a black, red and gold ribbon around the wrist.

According to the Bundestag administration, this procedure was agreed by all parliamentary groups.

MEPs who do not comply can only watch the meeting from a specially reserved gallery.

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