Parliament: dealing with the AfD: Union wants a common line with SPD

The Union strives for dealing with the AfD in parliamentary processes and functions in the new Bundestag, a common line of the future black and red coalition. Union Group Managing Director Thorsten Frei (CDU) said in Berlin that this should be discussed with the SPD. With a view to a debate initiated from the Union, he made it clear that it was not about a political classification of the AfD as a party.

Frei explained on the question of a vice presidential post for the AfD that each faction had a right of proposal, but then also had to have a majority in the Bundestag. “It doesn’t exist, and not just not briefly, but not crystal clear,” he said with a view to the constituent session in which an AfD candidate had failed. Therefore, he assumes “that this will continue to be very similar in the future with further elections.”

In the parliamentary control committee for the secret services, MPs of a party should not be represented, which in some federal states classified the protection of the constitution as right -wing extremist. “Just because otherwise you have to assume that the news services will not report directly and unfiltered.”

CDU Presidium member Jens Spahn had spoken in favor of dealing with the AfD in parliamentary operations as well as other opposition parties. This triggered a controversy. Since AfD’s Bundestag entry in 2017, all its applicants have been carried out as Vice President. In the past parliamentary term, the AfD also went away empty -handed in committee residues. It is now the second strongest group with 152 instead of 77 MPs.

Green Group Managing Director Irene Mihalic told the German Press Agency: “We expect the Union and SPD of any normalization of the AfD at least in part in part.” The Union and SPD should relate to overarching questions with the democratic opposition. “Together we are more than 75 percent, and we are convinced that parliamentaryism is essential for our democracy and that it is not allowed to be abused as a means for the abolition.”