politics
Updated on January 14, 2024, 12:09 p.m
Jan Redmann, state chairman of the CDU Brandenburg (here in June 2023), demands that AfD members should take over the post of Bundestag Vice President.
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The Brandenburg CDU leader Jan Redmann is calling for the AfD to be given a deputy position in the Bundestag presidency. Redmann bases this on experience from the Brandenburg state parliament.
The Brandenburg CDU leader Jan Redmann has called on the parties in the Bundestag to grant the AfD a deputy position in the presidium. “It is a mistake that the AfD is the only faction that does not have a vice-president of the Bundestag,” the CDU politician told the newspapers of the editorial network Germany (RND), according to a preliminary report on Sunday. “It benefits the AfD that its candidates regularly fail in the Bundestag elections.”
This supports “their own victim myth, in which the party bathes itself so lustfully,” Redmann continued. “She’s trying to stigmatize the others as bad Democrats.”
Of course it is the free decision of the individual MP, added Redmann. “But I can only advise that the AfD be given a deputy position in the Bundestag presidency.” The AfD has a vice-president in the Brandenburg state parliament, and that is of no use to the party. “It has no significant relevance in everyday parliamentary life.”
Debate about the AfD ban
The AfD, which has been in the Bundestag since 2017, has never been represented in the Bundestag presidium. Several of the parliamentary group’s candidates for the vice post have failed in recent years.
Recently, a debate has broken out again about a possible AfD ban. The background is reports of a secret meeting with right-wing extremists about plans to expel people with a migrant background from Germany. (AFP/jum)
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