Opinion
Thank you, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf!
With her waiver of the constitutional court, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf is state-bearing than many politicians. The Union in particular should now demonstrate humility.
“After careful consideration, I am no longer available for the election as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court.” The explanation that Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf had sent on Thursday begins with this sentence. The last sentence is: “You all be assured that I will continue to work for the values of our wonderful Basic Law.”
It is the final testimony of a failure – but above all a possible new beginning. Thanks to the legal professor from Potsdam, the CDU Chancellor and his parliamentary group leader get a second chance. You should, you have to use them.
The failure of the Jens Spahn
Because Brosius-Gersdorf has expressly failed. Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn have failed and embarrassed. They had appointed the election of Brosius-Gersdorf with the SPD and supported the responsible parliamentary committee. It was only days later that they noticed that a larger part of their own MPs had problems with it – and withdrew their approval.
As a result, a judge election in the Bundestag was canceled for the first time. The large slat led to the first severe crisis of the young coalition. And he threatened to damage three constitutional organs: the parliament, the federal government and the Karlsruhe court.
All of this increases Brosius-Gersdorf’s current decision to a state-supporting act. The fact that the waiver has no alternative to power politics does not reduce it just as much as the recent criticism that Brosius-Gersdorf is practiced at the CDU, CSU and parts of the media.
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Now please do it right
Merz, Spahn and the assembled Union should therefore say what to say: Thank you, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf! Because thanks to your strategic withdrawal, you can now do what you couldn’t do before: you can do it right.
Making correctly means taking your own party with you. To make the clever agreements, above all: to stick to it and not to bend when a wind turbines. In short: to show leadership.
The judge’s election is now becoming easier. But it will definitely not be easy. Finally, Brosius-Gersdorf’s candidacy did not just fail due to the individually justifiable concerns of some Union MPs, but because more of her colleagues were impressed by a campaign of ultra-right propagandists and AfD politicians.
This campaign is not over. Quite the opposite. After the first “left activist” is done, the next one should be finished.
The allegations against the SPD candidate Ann-Katrin Kaufhold are similarly constructed as that against Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf: The Munich Jura professor is made a “expropriation supporter” just because she was a expert on a commission that should check to what extent the housing group was fulfilling the Basic Law.
The AfD is ready to fight. You have to “deal with the personnel Kaufhold and make it clear here that it is completely intolerable,” said Stephan Brandner. The end for Brosius-Gersdorf is only the first and “small victory”.
The Union should learn from Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf
The Union faction must not be killed again. She now has to stop Kaufhold as well as to her own candidate Günter Spinner. The SPD in turn is the responsibility not to follow up and instead to submit a majority -capable personnel proposal.
In the end, Spahn should also do what he did after the chancellor’s election failed in the first attempt – and talk to Heidi Reichinnek. Because without the voices of the left faction, the AfD retains its potential for destruction.
Such a procedure would not only be politically wise, but as Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf acted. It would be state.
Source: Stern
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