Constitutional Court: “Brosius-Gersdorf retreat would be good-but not for the country”

“Handelsblatt”: “The social legitimacy of the candidate is damaged. Bishops, lawyers and political actors of the CDU and CSU express massive reservations-not only political nature. The Federal Constitutional Court needs personalities with broad acceptance, not just legal excellence. A withdrawal from Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf would therefore be not a failure. To make a press on the Union and to settle it in the evening.

“Young World”: “The campaign against the SPD candidate Brosius-Gersdorf started with right-wing internet portals at the beginning of July but also newspapers such as ‘Junge Freiheit’ and ‘Die Welt’. The AfD member of the Bundestag Beatrix from Storch Log, Brosius-Gersdorf, occurs for the right to abortion up to minutes before birth, her AfD-Affine CDU colleague Saskia Ludwig Orchestrated everything.

“Lausitzer Rundschau”: “Not only social democrats have pointed out the partially absurd assumptions with which the respected lawyer Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf was discredited. No, she does not refer to embryos and does not want a comprehensive head attendant for civil servants. You knew all of this in the Union or could have known. Back.

“Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “Last week it has shown that cultural struggle in the German Bundestag is not only what the AfD does – but that the polarization of society, the ideologization of the big topics also threatens to tear down the so -called parties in the middle. That the irreconcilable mood that is on the net also reaches every single MP and some concrete influences that it may not be enough in these times when a harmonious reign. Wants to reduce trenches, has to moderate, must convince the choice of Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf would be a good beginning. “

“Weser-Kurier”: “Whether Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf will actually be a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court is in the stars. Perhaps it would be even better to take the legal professor from Potsdam out of the race in order to get the trial of judge selection out of the heated political debate again. But that would be the admission of a defeat. In addition, the SPD will certainly ask for a high political prize. is to pay this price for a truthful campaign from right wing. “

“Reutlinger General-Anzeiger”: “The second affair that will deal with the Chancellor during the summer break is the personnel of Jens Spahn. Friedrich Merz has stood protecting for the second time – a third time is unlikely. In the meantime, many Christian Democrats ask themselves the question: cannot spahn, or does Spahn do not want to show the result of Friday at least a significant problem of trust within the Union. Let them influence and not trust their own experts in the election committee or the group of parliamentary group. “

“Bild” newspaper: MPs from the CDU and CSU refuse to vote for a new constitutional judge, politicians from the SPD, Greens and the left surpass themselves in attacks. It is high time to verify and take a deep breath. The choice of constitutional judges is a democratic process, candidates need a majority in the Bundestag-in this case even a two-thirds majority. If this consent is missing, this is not a ‘absolute scandal’, but a normal democratic process. Sure, the Union should have signaled the SPD earlier: Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has no majority with us. However, this does not change the right of MPs to let judge candidates fail. As it z. B. have already done the Greens, including In the case of suggestions from the CDU. “

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “: (The criticism of Brosius-Gersdorf) “… Pusks the meaning of the constitutional decision. The neutrality of the judges does not result from their pale or indifference, but because politics does not have the last word in the Karlsruhe discourse. wants to allow Karlsruhe neither a seminar and certainly not a talk show.