fact finder
Status: 09/10/2021 12:16 p.m.
The AfD claims that daily News I reported incorrectly about the Bundestag vote on flood aid, according to which the AfD was the only party not to agree. But that’s true, as the recording of the final vote shows.
On Tuesday, the Bundestag voted on a fund worth 30 billion euros for the victims of the flood disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate in mid-July. The tagesschau at 8 p.m. reported in a request to speak and named the result of the vote: All parties except the AfD voted in favor.
The AfD parliamentary group threw the daily News thereupon false reporting. MPs posted a short video in which AfD parliamentary group members as well as other MPs can be seen raising their hands in approval and Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau stated: “The remaining parts of the law have been unanimously adopted.”
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Rejection and abstention
But at this point the AfD is misleading itself, because it does not state that there are different stages in the voting process. the daily News-Message referred to the decisive third reading in the Bundestag, in which the reconstruction aid was approved. In the final third vote, the MPs were asked – as usual – to indicate their voting behavior by standing up.
Then Bundestag Vice-President Pau stated: “The bill is with the votes of the coalition, the FDP faction, the faction Die Linke and the faction Bündnis90 / Die Grünen against the votes of two MPs of the AfD faction with abstention of the other members of the AfD- Group adopted. “
This is documented in the recording of the 239th session of the Bundestag, available in the Bundestag’s media library, which here is linked. The final vote after the third reading can be seen at the end from timecode 6:15:50 at 3:16 p.m. in the clock at the top right:
The first editor-in-chief of ARD-aktuell, Marcus Bornheim, explains, “that different parliamentary groups voted differently on different parts of the law in the previous readings.