Judiciary
Judge election: Union and SPD against the special Bundestag meeting
When is there a new attempt to choose the constitutional judge? In any case, the coalition factions do not immediately explain.
The coalition factions of the Union and the SPD consider a special meeting of the Bundestag to be unnecessary for the election of new constitutional judges. You can see “currently no urgency” for this, write the two parliamentary managing directors of Union and SPD, Steffen Bilger (CDU) and Dirk Wiese (SPD) in a letter to the Greens faction leader Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge. It is available to the German Press Agency in Berlin.
Union and SPD want to take the time
The Greens had called for a new election start in the Bundestag for the current week. For this, the MPs should have come together for a special meeting during the summer break. The left had also rejected the push.
In their letter, Bilger and Wiese emphasized “that the goal of a promptly re -occupation of the three judges’ positions”. However, the Federal Constitutional Court is fully able to work. “The events of the past few days show that the majority requirements for the election of constitutional judges are challenging. As a coalition, we now want to take the necessary time to carefully prepare a new attempt for the elections in the plenum and then come back to conversation with them.”
The election of three new constitutional judges was canceled on Friday at the last minute because there was resistance in the Union against a lawyer nominated by the SPD.
dpa
Source: Stern
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