Pluming Bundestag: A MP does it particularly frequently

It is a sad record: Almost never has been picked and insulted in the German Bundestag as in this parliamentary term. According to the Bundestag, the balance sheet amounts to a total of 129 order calls and 26 Rügen. Only in the very first period 1949-1953 was the tone still rougher: at that time 156 orders (and no complaint) were granted.

The brutalization of the customs in the Bundestag can be clearly traced back to the AfD. Of the 129 orders of this legislature, 85 alone went to the Alternative account for Germany. SPD parliamentarians collected an order call, followed by the Greens (7), the left (6), Union (4) and FDP (2).

The Wagenknecht alliance BSW spoiled its good behavioral record in the last faction session on Tuesday, as a member of the group, during the debate about the debate package of the Union and SPD posters with the inscription "1914 and 2025-no to war loans". Because showing "saying bands or transparent" of all kinds in the Bundestag according to the house rules (paragraph 4, paragraph 2), the outgoing Vice President Petra Pau spoke an order call to all BSW parliamentarians who had held up a sign.

And one more in the last meeting of the Bundestag of the 20th parliamentary term apparently wanted to notice again at all costs: AfD MP Stephan Brandner received an order call after he described Friedrich Merz as the "Pinocchio-Fritze".

Brandner brings it to most of the order calls, a total of 20. He is just ahead of his group colleague Beatrix von Storch, who was called for order 19 times. This accuses the presidium management of double standards. "When awarding orders, the decision is made according to political opportunities and measured with two dimensions," said von Storch to star. Representatives of other political groups would not be prosecuted for the same statements.

The protocols of the Bundestag meetings do not support this claim. Rather, they show that the respective session lines were very hard to punish even when a violation of their own faction came.

What the protocols also show: statements that led to the calls for orders at the other groups almost always applied to the AfD. On June 17th, 2024, the then FDP MP Marie-Agnnes Strack-Zimmermann described the alternative as "successor to the National Socialists" shortly before her move to the European Aarliament and picked up a call for orders from Bundestag president Bärbel Bas (SPD). At the meeting before, AfD parliamentary group leader chief Tino Chrupalla Strack-Zimmermann called a "war driver".

However, representatives of the alternative are particularly frequently insulted by the Greens. Sometimes the AfD politician Eugen Schmidt called the Green Tobias Bacherle a "long-haired untried warmonger", then again his party friend Martin Reichardt considered it witty to mock the "overweight Ricarda Lang". Beatrix von Storch repeatedly emerged to insult opponents of the abortion ban in 2018 as a "children's murderer".

A similar picture is shown in the Rügen. Of the 26 complaints that were pronounced in this legislature by the end of January, 13 alone concerned the AfD. The SPD follows in second place: Social Democrats had to read the SPD four times. Twice it hit a left, once a green, once an FDP parliamentarian. The Union received no complaint.

The AfD MP Brandner also leads the statistics for Pöblers, and he was criticized three times. Sometimes he called to the Green MP Irene Mihalic: "You are extremely stupid." Another time he mocked the clothes of the Green Renate Künast. When these Brandner insulted because he had called another MP "speech doll", she promptly received a complaint herself. Ex-Linken boss Janine Wissler received a complaint because she said in the Bundestag about the AfD: "You should never try to overlook the smelly of how Union and traffic lights are doing."

Bundestag Vice Katrin Göring-Eckardt (since 1998 in the Bundestag), the AfD sees the main cause of the increasing disrespect in the Bundestag. "Since the AfD is in the Bundestag, unfortunately, mobbing and insulting, especially against women who step on the lectern, have been part of everyday parliamentary life," said the Greens politicians star. "It has nothing to do with political debate." As vice president, she has no choice but "to enforce the rules against such ribs".

Clarity and intolerance could be helpful in the political discussion, said Göring-Eckardt. But: "Insults and rabbits poison the climate, not only the political debate, but also to together."