Corona rules in the Bundestag: AfD files a lawsuit - and speaks of discrimination and exclusion

Created: 01/20/2022, 2:40 p.m

By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi

The AfD parliamentary group has filed a lawsuit against the new Corona rules in the Bundestag.

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The Corona rules in the Bundestag are disrupting the AfD parliamentary group, which has now filed a lawsuit against the regulations.

The rules would discriminate and exclude.

Munich - In order to contain the rapid spread of the corona pandemic - especially in view of the highly contagious omicron variant - and to take appropriate steps, new measures are constantly being debated in the Bundestag.

The Bundestag itself is also affected by some pandemic rules.

The AfD parliamentary group stands out as a particularly fierce opponent of the restrictions in the Bundestag.

Now she has apparently filed a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court against the new Corona rules.

Corona rules in the Bundestag: AfD wants repeal and complains to the Federal Constitutional Court

As the German Press Agency learned from the parliamentary group on Thursday

, an application was made on January 18 to issue an interim order to lift the new rules.

At the end of December, the parliamentary group had already filed a lawsuit in Karlsruhe because of the non-appointment of committee chairs in the Bundestag with candidates from its ranks.

The new 2G-Plus rule in parliament must be lifted immediately so that every member of parliament can again perform his or her parliamentary duties on an equal basis and without discrimination, regardless of their vaccination status, said the parliamentary director of the AfD parliamentary group, Stephan Brandner.

"Only in this way can the right to an effective opposition enshrined in the Basic Law be guaranteed again," he emphasized.

The AfD politician spoke of an exclusion of freely elected members of parliament, which is "specifically directed against the AfD parliamentary group".

Corona rules: Unvaccinated people are not allowed in the Bundestag – sharp criticism from the AfD of regulations

Last week, the Bundestag decided on the tightened corona rules with the votes of the other parliamentary groups against those of the AfD. MEPs who are neither vaccinated nor recovered are no longer allowed in the plenary hall or in the committees, even if they test negative. You can only follow the sessions from the stands with a current negative test.

The AfD also sharply criticized the recent reduction in the convalescent status to a period of 28 to 90 days after a positive PCR test.

Because of the new regulation, parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel, who says she had Corona in November, will have to sit in the stands from February.

"The federal government must immediately withdraw the reduction in the status of convalescents, which is also highly controversial among scientists," she demanded.

Her co-group leader Tino Chrupalla called the shortening "mere arbitrariness".