Bavaria: AfD failed again in the election in the control committee – Bavaria

The AfD failed again in an attempt to have a parliamentary group member elected to the Parliamentary Control Committee (PKG) in the state parliament in Munich. Among other things, the committee controls the work of the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution. This time the MP Uli Henkel applied in vain. In the secret election in the state parliament on Tuesday evening, Henkel missed the necessary majority by far – he only got 18 out of 161 votes. 140 MPs voted no, there was one invalid vote and two abstentions. The AfD parliamentary group currently has 19 members.

Immediately afterwards, the AfD also started a new attempt to fill the post of vice-president of the state parliament. The MP Franz Bergmüller applied for this. The result should also be announced on Tuesday in the course of the evening.

According to the law, the parliamentary control body has seven members, divided according to the strength of the parliamentary groups. The occupation is usually a formality. The AfD has been trying in vain for a place since it moved into the state parliament in 2018 – the last time it tried to do so was a few weeks ago. The other parliamentary groups always refused to vote for AfD candidates.

The AfD sees its constitutional rights as an opposition faction violated. The parliamentary group had also failed with a constitutional lawsuit aimed at forcing such a place: the Bavarian Constitutional Court rejected a corresponding AfD application at the end of August as inadmissible. The AfD has now announced another lawsuit – and this must then be decided in terms of content, said parliamentary group leader Ulrich Singer.

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