Office in parliament: AfD debate: Klingbeil sees CDU internal foul against Merz

The SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil criticizes the debate initiated from the Union about dealing with the AfD in the Bundestag and also sees an internal “foul game” against CDU boss Friedrich Merz. “I am irritated by this discussion, which is unnecessary and wrong. Jens Spahn and others in the Union should concentrate on what we want to achieve for our country,” said Klingbeil of the Funke media group.

The CDU Presidium member Spahn had spoken in favor of dealing with the AfD on organizational issues in parliament as with other opposition parties – for example in the event of procedures, in the rules of procedure and at committees. He received support from some Union politicians.

The chairman of the CDU worker wing, Dennis Radtke, said the “Wochentaz”: “I find this whole debate as superfluous as it is harmful.” The Federal Constitutional Court determined that the rules of procedure of the Bundestag had not been violated at the expense of the AfD. Radtke had previously warned in the “Handelsblatt” that it should be guarded against fueling the AfD “victim narrative”. “I would rather drop my hand before I gave an AfD politician my voice for something.”

Klingbeil also said: “I will not raise my hand in the Bundestag for an AfD politician.” The SPD MP Ralf Stegner told the “Handelsblatt”: “If conservative normalize the relationship to the right-wing radical AfD, i.e. in German, want to approach themselves, put the linte of a possible coalition with social democracy.” The AfD has proposal rights like any other faction. “Nobody has the right to be elected.”

Since the AfD moved into the Bundestag in 2017, all of its applicants for the office of Vice President have been carried out in the election. In the past parliamentary term, the AfD also went away empty -handed in committee residues. The former President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert recently reminded the “NTV.de” portal that the Greens had to wait more than ten years from 1983 until they were represented in the Presidium of the Bundestag for the first time.

Klingbeil sees “foul game” against Merz

Klingbeil said about the discussion: “Incidentally, this is also a foul against Friedrich Merz when such debates are started in the Union, shortly after he negotiated a coalition agreement with us.” Obviously, not all of the mode have yet arrived in the Union that they want to design and rule the country.