A judge’s election and the Union: gambled, tubular, lost, lost

And again this coalition failed in parliament. After she needed two attempts to choose a Chancellor in May, she now had to take the election of three federal constitutional judges from the agenda.

It is a self -organized embarrassment. The communication within the coalition nor the inner leadership of the Union did not work. In addition, there was smooth refusal to reality.

All of this will have a long time. The black and red emergency alliance, which wanted to be so much better than the traffic lights, goes quarreled and crumpled into the summer break. For everything that is to be decided in autumn – household, laws, reforms – this is a fatal sign.

Basically, the following applies: The fact that freelance MPs do not want to vote for a candidate to the constitutional court is her right and a sign of democracy lived. If parliamentary members follow their conscience, especially when another constitutional body is occupied, follow the Basic Law. Point.

Regardless of this, what happened in the Bundestag this Friday was a political debacle with an announcement. The choice of the constitutional judge was set by the coalition without having to secure the necessary two-thirds majority.

The Union in particular is to blame. Group leader Jens Spahn agreed with the SPD two candidates without having his MPs behind. Their chairman should have guessed at least that one of the two women, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, many in the CDU and CSU on the left.

Meanwhile, Friedrich Merz hardly did any better. He let Spahn acted and dealt with his new passion: world politics. The Chancellor and CDU chairman also bears the overall responsibility for the functioning of the coalition.

After Spahn had only gambled, he also turned it on. The fact that the parliamentary group leader instrumentalized a few thin plagiarism against Brosius-Gersdorf in his panic confirmed what many have thought in political Berlin for a long time: the man simply cannot be trusted.

As a result, a lot of trust was lost this Friday: between the coalition partners, but also in the leadership skills of the Union peaks.

To make matters worse, the CDU and CSU ignore the new reality: If you do not want to rely on the AfD votes in the Bundestag, you have to come to terms with your left.

In the East German state parliaments, the CDU has long since gone through this knowledge. Finally, the minority government in Saxony, led by CDU Federal Vice-President Michael Kretschmer, was only able to decide the state budget thanks to left voices. Before that, the Union in Thuringia had de facto tolerated a government led by the left to keep the AfD right-wing extremist Björn Höcke away from power.

The Union should use the summer – or the time until a special meeting – to finally make yourself honest. And afterwards she should not only choose new constitutional judges, but also a parliamentary group leader who can do it. Otherwise this government will not last until the next Bundestag election.