Generation change: This is good news for the Bundestag itself.
Hopefully there will be arguments and discussions in parliament again soon, comments Mike Schier.
Munich - Angela Merkel had to take a seat upstairs in the visitors' gallery for the first time after 31 years as a member of parliament, while below Wolfgang Schäuble - member of parliament for half a century! - gave his perhaps last big speech. With the constituent session of the Bundestag on Tuesday, it became clear what a turning point the Federal Republic is experiencing these days. The last representatives of the late Kohl years are withdrawing (not all of them voluntarily), Gerhard Schröder's Agenda generation has already left Berlin for the most part - with the exception of the one who is now to become Federal Chancellor. And even of the Merkel cabinet there is not much left: Merkel, Seehofer, Kramp-Karrenbauer, Altmaier, Gerd Müller. All away. Time for new faces.
New faces in the Bundestag: under the power pragmatist Merkel, the parliament has only rarely appeared self-confidently
This is good news for the Bundestag itself.
Under the power pragmatist Merkel, parliament has only rarely appeared self-confidently recently.
A development that Corona intensified.
Pandemic times are times of the executive.
If there was a dispute in the plenary, it was mostly only because of provocations by the AfD, which did not bring the country any further.
In future there will be three governing parties, the largest of which is made up of 49 Jusos under the age of 35, and again a (albeit decimated) People's Party as the opposition.
Hopefully in future there will be discussions and arguments not only at Lanz or Illner, but in the elected heart chamber of democracy.
In any case, the parties seem to be forcing the generation change.
Bärbel Bas has an exciting biography, as President of the Bundestag she now has to make herself heard.
And even the Union is relying on a fresh face with Yvonne Magwas.
Let's see who of the new can grow into the footsteps of the old.
A comment by Mike Schier
