Dispute in the Bundestag: AfD wants to proceed against the Saal decision

According to its own statements, the AfD parliamentary group wants to act against the decision on the allocation of the meeting rooms in the Bundestag. The first parliamentary managing director of the parliamentary group, Bernd Baumann, announced “legal disputes” with the help of experts. “We are doing this by all means, of course,” he said to journalists in Berlin. At first it did not become more specific.

The Council of Elders of the Bundestag had previously decided with a majority decision against the AfD and assigned it to the FDP faction’s former meeting room. The AfD had registered as the second largest and twice-grown faction entitled to the previous session room of the SPD parliamentary group, which is significantly larger. The SPD can keep it after the decision.

The AfD is taken over the ability to work, said Baumann, referring to the narrow and stool arrangement in the area assigned to it.

“Otto Wels’s big names have contacted me”

According to SPD, a family member of the former SPD leader Otto Wels welcomed the decision. “Otto Wels’ big names contacted me. We talked on the phone and she was very relieved,” said the first parliamentary managing director of the SPD parliamentary group, Dirk Wiese, ahead of journalists in Berlin. He did not give any further details. The SPD contacted the grand novements in the course of the debate about the meeting room.

The Social Democrats had baptized their “Otto-Wels-Hall” meeting room, in memory of the SPD leader, who in March 1933 had justified his party’s no against his party’s authorization law, with which democracy was destroyed and all power was transferred to the Nazis.

Wiese called the Saal decision “factually and professionally” justified and confirmed the arguments of the SPD, according to which it would also need enough space for employees from ministries as a government faction.