A too liberal candidate
However, against all odds, two hours before the vote, the Christians-democrats of Chancellor Merz announced that they could no longer ensure the election of Judge Frauke Brosius-Gerdof, candidate of social democrats. In question: a sudden accusation of plagiarism of his doctoral thesis, alleged by a personality specializing in hunting for this kind of files (often wrongly). Officially, the CDU/CSU wishes to shed light on this case. Unofficially, around thirty right -wing deputies would have expressed their refusal to support this judge on Thursday, qualified as too liberal.
For weeks, Frauke Brosius-Gerdof has indeed been criticized on the right and the far right for its political positions: favorable to the vaccination obligation during the pandemic, it supports the complete decriminalization of the abortion and is favorable to a procedure for prohibiting the far-right AFD party, if necessary.
Within the Bundestag, Friday, the social democrat Dirk Wierke castigated “The hate campaign against this high -ranking judge “, “Threatened on the internet by the so-called life defenders”. And to reproach Christians-democrats for not having held their word to support her. “”We too, social democrats, we swallow snakes on certain files, but at least we show our spirit of responsibility […]. I never thought that we would live in Germany a crisis as in Poland or in the United States around constitutional judges “, he launched.
Bread blessed for AFD
Among environmentalists, in opposition, we go further. “”It’s a bad day for the Bundestag, for democracy and for the Constitutional Court, “comments The co-president of the parliamentary group Britta Hasselmann, accusing Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn, president of the Christian Democratic parliamentary group, of not holding their troops. “You are responsible for this disaster”, she believes. The extreme right, it is a jubilant of this new hiccup. “”What we see today is the absolute instability of this government “, and tonné l’uglu bernd taluman.
Friedrich Merz, elected Chancellor of Forceps
In this context, the vote of the three judges was postponed. The Bundestag has three months to renew the procedure. So much time to try to pick up the songs and the confidence between the coalition parties.
