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After October and December, he also fails in April: Michael Kaufmann (AfD) does not become part of the Bundestag Presidium
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The AfD is still not represented in the Bundestag Presidium.
Your MP Michael Kaufmann failed at the third attempt in the election for Vice President of Parliament.
Kaufmann received only 95 yes votes on Thursday evening;
538 parliamentarians voted against him.
Kaufmann failed in October and December.
Since entering the Bundestag in 2017, the AfD has been the only parliamentary group that has never had a deputy post in the presidium because all candidates failed to achieve the required majority.
According to the rules of procedure of the Bundestag, each parliamentary group is entitled to at least one seat in the parliamentary presidency.
However, the members of the Presidency are elected by the MEPs, and MEPs are free to choose how they vote.
In the case of the AfD candidates, rejection always prevailed.
In March, the German Constitutional Court ruled that the AfD parliamentary group cannot demand that its candidates be elected to the presidency.
The secret service control of the Bundestag also continues to take place without AfD participation.
The retired Bundeswehr General Joachim Wundrak, who had been sent into the race by the AfD for the relevant body, clearly missed the necessary number of 369 yes votes with 98 supporters.
Two weeks ago, Wundrak failed in the vote – as did Left Party candidate André Hahn, who initially did not stand a second time.
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