Bundestag: AfD wants to stop special session – Ultimatum to BAS

Are the plans of the Union and SPD plans for a so -called special fund for the infrastructure and to loosen the debt brake legally from the highest point?

According to its own statements, the AfD parliamentary group has requested a cancellation of the planned special meetings of the old Bundestag for the purpose of corresponding changes to the Basic Law. The meetings are planned for next Thursday and the following Tuesday.

Ultimatum to Bundestag president

The German press agency has the letter. If BAS does not meet the request by Monday, the AfD parliamentary group and individual MPs want to initiate an urgent procedure before the Federal Constitutional Court, with the aim of prohibiting the convening of the old Bundestag. According to the AfD, BAS is obliged to convene the new Bundestag, not the old one, said AfD vice and faction Justice Stephan Brandner.

In a message from the AfD parliamentary group, it was said that the Bundestag president should be doubted that the previous Bundestag could convene the previous Bundestag apart from emergencies. “This applies in particular if the old parliament is to decide as essential questions as the changes to the Basic Law.”

Crucial point of two-thirds majority

During their explorations to form a possible new federal government, the SPD and Union agreed the special infrastructure pot of 500 billion euros, and a loosening of the debt brake anchored in the Basic Law can be massively invested in the area of ​​defense. This is justified with the tense international and economic situation.

The plans require a change in the Basic Law, for which two-thirds majorities are necessary in the Bundestag and the Federal Council. In the newly elected Bundestag, which only meets on March 25, the Union, SPD and Greens no longer come to such a majority because of the gains of AfD and left.

As long as the new Bundestag has not constituted, the old one is still considered to work and quorate. According to the consultations of the Council of Elders, BAS had therefore called for special meetings of the old parliament at the request of the Union and the SPD. There is still the required two-thirds majority. According to Article 39 Basic Law, special meetings can be convened if a third of the members of the Bundestag requests this.

The AfD lawyers argue that the convening was already void, since according to the Bundestag president, only the political groups of the CDU/CSU and SPD would have requested them, but not as required by the Basic Law, a third of all MPs. Factions are not authorized to provide a desire for Article 39 Basic Law. There should be concrete, handwritten desired request named by name, according to the AfD argument.

Left also thinks about legal steps

The left also consider legal steps. “We are currently reviewing a wide variety of legal options to pull in front of the Federal Constitutional Court,” said the parliamentary managing director of the left, Christian Görke of the dpa.

The non -party MP Joana Cotar (formerly AfD) has already announced that it would move to the Federal Constitutional Court. On request, she confirmed a corresponding “picture” report. It is not conveyed why “the old parliament should start again without need”, where a new Bundestag is in the starting blocks. “This procedure violates the rights of members of the German Bundestag because we lack the time to properly advise on the suggestions.”