Complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court
“Right to effective opposition”: AfD parliamentary group sues against 2G-Plus in the Bundestag
Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD parliamentary group
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The AfD parliamentary group has filed a lawsuit against the new Corona rules in the Bundestag with the Federal Constitutional Court. After the new measures, parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel also has to sit in the stands.
The AfD is suing the Federal Constitutional Court against the new 2G Plus rules in the Bundestag. According to information from the German Press Agency, on January 18th, among other things, an application for a temporary injunction to lift the new rules was made. At the end of December, the parliamentary group had already filed a lawsuit in Karlsruhe because of the non-appointment of committee chairs in the Bundestag with candidates from its ranks.
Accusation of the targeted exclusion of AfD MPs
The new 2G-plus rule in parliament must be lifted immediately so that every member of parliament can again perform his or her parliamentary duties on an equal basis and without discrimination, regardless of their vaccination status, said the parliamentary manager of the AfD parliamentary group, Stephan Brandner. “Only in this way can the right to an effective opposition enshrined in the Basic Law be guaranteed again.” He spoke of an exclusion of freely elected MPs, which was “specifically directed against the AfD parliamentary group”.
Last week, the Bundestag decided on the tightened corona rules with the votes of the other parliamentary groups against those of the AfD. MEPs who are neither vaccinated nor recovered are no longer allowed in the plenary hall or in the committees, even if they test negative. You can only follow the sessions from the stands with a current negative test.
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Alice Weidel has to go to the stands from February
The AfD also sharply criticized the recent reduction in the convalescent status to a period of 28 to 90 days after a positive PCR test. Because of the new regulation, parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel, who says she had Corona in November, will have to sit in the stands from February.
“The federal government must immediately withdraw the reduction in the status of convalescents, which is also highly controversial among scientists,” she demanded on Thursday. Your co-group leader Tino Chrupalla called the shortening “mere arbitrariness”.