As of: March 8, 2024, 9:52 a.m
By: Marc Beyer
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The Bundestag is once again considering a Union proposal regarding Taurus deliveries to Ukraine.
Unrest is growing in the SPD
Munich – The agenda for next Thursday (March 14th) still reads unspectacularly.
At nine o'clock the Bundestag meets to debate the Citizens' Assembly's recommendations on nutrition policy.
It will be about free lunches for children and the desired ban on supermarkets throwing away food in good condition when it has expired.
Important topics, but the big headlines are likely to be made by another item that is only just coming onto the agenda.
Union submits Taurus application again
It announced days ago that the Union would once again put a motion to the vote that would request the federal government to deliver Taurus rockets to Ukraine.
Now she has followed up.
Thursday morning, roll call vote.
Parliamentary group leader Thorsten Frei told the “Rheinische Post” that at the end of this week, Chancellor Olaf Scholz would be “faced with the rubble of his baseless communication.”
It is time “for the MPs to show him the way out of the impasse”.
An exhibit of a Taurus cruise missile in the showroom of the defense company MBDA.
© IMAGO/Michael Bihlmayer
This is aimed not least at the representatives of the FDP.
Party vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki had suggested to our newspaper that at least a dozen parliamentarians could agree to a Union proposal.
Not enough for a majority, but definitely a loud signal.
Taurus debate: The SPD is becoming restless
The unrest is growing.
SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich yesterday called on the traffic light partners to show unity and more discipline.
Referring to Kubicki and other heckling - Mützenich bluntly described them as threats - he wanted to "remind us of the coalition agreement and the agreement that we made at the beginning of our cooperation."
“The uniform voting behavior is clearly laid down there” and also applies to questions “that go beyond the content of the coalition agreement”.
For example, the delivery of cruise missiles to war zones.
The fact that the FDP defense expert Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann voted for a Union proposal for Taurus deliveries two weeks ago was unusual enough, but apparently only the beginning.
“When it comes to Taurus delivery, the fair has not yet been read,” announced FDP Parliamentary Managing Director Stephan Thomae in the “Augsburger Allgemeine”.
Despite Scholz's veto ("I am the Chancellor, and that's why this applies"), the discussion is still "in full swing".
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CDU assumes Scholz is calculating
CDU foreign politician Norbert Röttgen accuses Scholz of acting so defensively in the Taurus debate, not least out of electoral considerations.
The Chancellor uses terms such as “nuclear war, escalation and war party” and is thereby “appropriating the Russian fear rhetoric,” Röttgen alleges.
The motif?
“Because his party wants to present Scholz as peace chancellor for the upcoming election campaigns.”
This theory will definitely be discussed on Thursday.
The day before, Scholz answered questions from MPs in parliament for the first time this year.
The topic of Taurus will also accompany him at this appointment.
(Marc Beyer)