Wolfgang Schäuble has not been President of the German Bundestag since Tuesday afternoon.
The internal adoption should have caused a scandal.
Berlin - What was said was not actually intended for the public, just a small, quiet gesture. The microphone was not yet turned off and therefore Wolfgang Schäuble could still be heard. Schäuble, President of the 19th Bundestag, thanked his secretaries and employees who sat on the podium next to him for the past four years. It was a good time, he said. Then Bärbel Bas from the SPD stepped onto the podium and took over his office. Bas has been the new President of the German Bundestag since Tuesday afternoon around 1.30 p.m.
Schäuble was an influential man in the CDU for decades and was considered an important voice in the political landscape.
The now 79-year-old politician can look back on an eventful career: he was head of the chancellery, parliamentary group and party chairman, finance and interior minister and finally president of the Bundestag.
With the constitution of the new Bundestag, Schäuble is only a simple member of parliament.
Scandal about Wolfgang Schäuble: Did party colleagues simply forget him?
Reason enough for some party colleagues to pay tribute to the 79-year-old and his achievements in their own parliamentary group again.
However, according to information from the
Business Insider
portal, it was precisely this that led
to a scandal.
According to the report, Schäuble's departure has been forgotten.
This was reported to the portal by several participants who were not named.
According to the information, parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus Schäuble's successor Bas had given ample time to personally introduce herself to the parliamentary group, and Brinkhaus himself had raised some issues.
Only Schäuble was not mentioned.
Schäuble himself is said to have been on the verge of leaving the room when Brinkhaus ordered him back in order to address a few words of thanks to him.
Video: Wolfgang Schäuble - the patriarch withdraws
According to the participants, the farewell was generally rather unworthy.
Business Insider
quotes a member of parliament as saying: "That would not have happened to the former parliamentary group leader Volker Kauder." The parliamentary group itself rejects the accusation.
Rather, Schäuble had been adopted with warm words, and he also remains a member of the parliamentary group and member of the Bundestag.
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fmü
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