The SPD, CDU, Greens and FDP continue to remove from the agenda any motions by BSW and AfD that might receive cross-party support in the plenum. Such was the fate of four peace motions by Wagenknecht BSW party. Similarly, the AfD leadership announced at a press event two days ago: “At the behest of the CDU/CSU faction under Friedrich Merz, all motions from the AfD faction were removed from the agenda in the Bundestag committees.” Thus, parliamentary initiatives cannot be discussed in committee and thus also cannot reach the plenum.
This is making a sad joke of parliamentary work, and it smacks of totalitarianism, alienating the general population even more from any trust in Berlin.
AfD leader Alice Weidel called it “an outrageous, undemocratic process.” She explained that the purpose is that such AfD motions, with whose content CDU, FDP or other MPs agree, will not come to a vote, given the “danger” that there might be cross-party voting. Even their motions with roll-call voting that were already on the Bundestag plenum agenda this week, for example on nuclear energy or migration, were cancelled and the motions referred back to committee, and thereby killed. Weidel slammed this “unprecedented occurrence in the German Bundestag” calling it “irresponsible.”
There is now a conservative majority in the Bundestag, which could agree and vote on issues such as reopening the nuclear power plants, shut down by the SPD-Green-FDP coalition.
