(A word was exchanged in the first sentence: the choice has not yet taken place.)
Berlin (dpa-AfX)-The SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil states to his party’s candidate for the Federal Constitutional Court and demands that the Bundestag have the burst judge. The Union’s concerns about the law professor Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf for alleged allegations of plagiarism have been cleared. “That is why we can put the election back on the agenda of the Bundestag,” said Klingbeil of the “Bild am Sonntag”. He repeated his classification that it was “a fundamental question of whether one gives up to print right -wing networks that a highly qualified woman defamed”. Union politicians are pushing for Brosius-Gersdorf’s withdrawal and seeing no hurry on the subject.
Despite the coalition -internal dispute over the judge’s election, Vice Chancellor Klingbeil praised his good employment relationship with Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU): “I have a very close and trusting coordination with the Chancellor. We are constantly in discussion,” he said. In view of the upcoming problems that the black-red coalition has to solve, Klingbeil warned discipline from the MPs: “There will be all the legislature about difficult votes. The government fractions must be.”
The Union had nominated the SPD candidate in the judge’s election committee, the Union faction management had spoken out for her choice. The elections of Brosius-Gersdorf and two other new judges for Karlsruhe were then discontinued at short notice from the agenda of the Bundestag because the pressure against the Potsdam constitutional lawyer in the Union had become too great and the fraction management could no longer guarantee the coalition partner.