AfD candidate fails: power struggle on the budget committee begins!

AfD candidate fails: power struggle on the budget committee begins!

Bundestag, Berlin, Deutschland - Ulrike Schielke-Ziesing from the AfD was not elected in the election as chair of the Bundestag's budget committee. She did not find her failure surprising, but expressed that it was a bad signal that the strongest opposition party is denied access to this important item. The background to this decision is the clear attitude of the Union, which has decided not to collect a cooperation with the AfD, not even in working questions. CDU politician Carsten Körber confirmed that the rejection of Schielke-Ziesing was not a personal decision, but reflected fundamentally beliefs. The AfD had given great hopes for the takeover of chair positions in several of the 24 Bundestag committees.

On Wednesday, the 24 specialist committees of the Bundestag began with their work and voted on their chairpersons. It is expected that the AfD will not receive any committee front. The CDU/CSU parliamentary group tip has expressly recommended that the AfD candidates not choose. The SPD, the Greens and the Left have already signaled that they will reject the AfD's nominations. This means that the AfD, although it received 20.8 percent of the votes in the Bundestag election, and is therefore the second strongest parliamentary group in the Bundestag, are only entitled to six committees.

challenges for the AfD

The AfD's nominations included the names Gerrit Huy and Stefan Möller, but without moderate candidates being set up to maintain approval. In the first round, the AfD chose the budget committee and the committees for finance, internal, work and social affairs, law and petitions, but was unsuccessful in the first round. This situation is not new to the AfD; In the legislative period from 2017 to 2021, she already had three committee supervisors, including that of the chairman Stephan Brandner, who was later elected due to anti -Semitic statements.

The Bundestag committees play an important role in parliamentary work, since they are responsible for advising applications and laws as well as the preparation of votes. The Bundestag works with a rules of procedure that regulates the distribution of the committee supervisors in relation to the strength of the political groups. However, there is no right to consent to the nominations, which means that the balance of power in practice is decisive. In the current legislative period, the Federal Constitutional Court has already decided that the staffing of the committees and the election of chairpersons were legally flawless.

outlook on future work in the Bundestag

The distribution of the vice items is still pending and complications could occur due to the current conditions. Common practice says that the chair and the vice posts should not be awarded to a faction. If the AfD claims both the chair and the deputy for a committee and fail, the longest -serving member leads the meetings. This dynamic could significantly influence the future work in the Bundestag and questions the effectiveness of the AfD, while trying to achieve raw power positions in an increasingly polarized political environment.

The developments in the Bundestag clearly show that the disputes about the committee supervision are a central topic in the current political landscape. The reactions of the established parties reflect a framework that questions the political cooperation with the AfD and indicates the challenges that are before the faction.