Secret services, terror and Co.
This CDU man is supposed to lead the most secret committee in the Bundestag
CDU and CSU make a politician from North Rhine-Westphalia the new head of the parliamentary control committee. The TV face Roderich Kiesewetter flies out.
The most secret committee of the German Bundestag receives a new chairman. The Union faction wants to make MP Marc Henrichmann from Münster the new chairman of the parliamentary control committee (PKGR). That was decided on Tuesday in the parliamentary group meeting, like the star learned.
Henrichmann succeeds the Green politician Konstantin von Notz, who had led the committee in the past legislative period. The domestic politician Henrichmann thus becomes one of the most influential MPs in the Bundestag. The 49-year-old has been a member of the committee since the end of the past legislative period.
Committee controls the work of the secret services
The PKGR controls the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the military shielding service (MAD) and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV). The meetings take place regularly, not even the agendas are known, let alone concrete content. The members are also committed to absolute confidentiality.
The committee negotiates terrorist dangers from inside and outside, cyber threats, extremist tendencies in society, and even individuals are taught in the PKGR. The parliamentarians in it are better informed as most members of the federal government. In the future, the committee is to be reduced from twelve to nine members again.
TV face Kiesewetter should leave committee
The second and new member for the Union is to become the Baden-Württemberg domestic politician Alexander Throm. For him, the former chairman of the committee must give way, the profiled security politician Roderich Kiesewetter. This is considered to be best networked and recognized in the security authorities. He is primarily known to the public through his opinion-strong TV appearances- obviously not always to the favor of faction and party leadership.
For the Greens, after star-Informations The previous chairman Konstantin von Notz remain a member of the committee. His group colleague Irene Mihalic has to give up her place to nine members because of the reduction. The official election of members of the committee will take place in the plenary of the German Bundestag next week.
Source: Stern
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