Judge election: Merz remains: Discuss a judge in peace

Chancellor Friedrich Merz also wants to capture the announced procedure after the statement by the SPD constitutional judge candidate Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf: he wants to discuss this in the coming weeks within the black-red coalition.

“I said everything necessary at the weekend,” said the CDU boss after visiting a Bavarian cabinet session at the Zugspitze. He had nothing to add to this. “In the coalition we talk about how we solve this.” Merz had already said at the weekend that there was no hurry.

On Friday, the elections of two new judges and a judge for Karlsruhe were discontinued by the agenda of the Bundestag. The pressure against the Potsdam constitutional lawyer Brosius-Gersdorf proposed by the SPD had become too great in the Union. The group management was no longer able to guarantee the support agreed with the coalition partner.

Chancellor continues to choose the Bundestag

Judge elections often not sought in the Bundestag on the first attempt, said Merz. However, he relies on the fact that there is a majority in the Bundestag in the end: “My wish would be that we would come to solutions in the German Bundestag and that we do not have to trigger the replacement election mechanism that the Federal Council makes the choice that the Bundestag should actually do.” One wants to talk about everything else in the coalition.

CSU boss Markus Söder said when asked about Brosius-Gersdorf’s statement: “Our assessment is the same.”

In the morning, Brosius-Gersdorf had clearly rejected allegations against her. “The name of my person as” ultralinks “or” left -wing radical “is defamatory and unrealistic,” wrote the lawyer in a statement that she published through a law firm. The German press agency has the letter. At first ZDF and Deutschlandfunk had reported about it.