Bundestag: Basque hat leads to the throw out

The left-wing MP Marcel Bauer from the Bundestag’s plenary hall has been referred to the wearing of a bask. Parliamentary Vice President Andrea Lindholz (CSU) excluded the 33-year-old from the current plenary session under the applause from CDU/CSU and AfD. Before that, he had not complied with her request to discontinue the black hat or voluntarily leave the room.

Around an hour and a half earlier, Bauer had already clashed with Bundestag President Julia Klöckner (CDU). She also asked the MP from Baden-Württemberg to stop the beret. “I would ask you to do it because this is customary in the house – and if that is not possible for you, I ask you to leave the hall.” Bauer did that too – but later returned.

At first glance, the rules of procedure and the house rules of the Bundestag do not show which clothing is allowed in the plenary hall and which are not. Many years ago, however, the Green Member of the Green, Hans-Christian Ströbele, who had died, had been stopped by a Saaldiener with the note because of a cap that headgear in the plenary hall was generally not allowed.

Deputy profile of Marcel Bauer’s rules of procedure of the German Bundestag