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The AfD won more than 20 percent of the vote and secured 152 seats to become the biggest opposition party in the Bundestag, which entitles it to chair several committees. Those posts hold real power because committee chairs steer debates, summon expert witnesses and influence the legislative agenda.
‘Voters wanted to tell us something’
The CDU’s Friedrich Merz is set to become chancellor once a governing coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) gets to work next month.
CDU heavyweight Jens Spahn, a former health minister, told Bild that the AfD should be treated “in parliamentary procedures and processes like any other opposition party.” He said its MPs were “sitting there in such strength because voters wanted to tell us something” and that “we should take these voters seriously.” Bild is owned by POLITICO’s parent company, Axel Springer.
Until now, the CDU and other mainstream parties, including the center-left SPD of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz, have worked around this rule to keep the AfD out. It has been repeatedly blocked from holding the Bundestag vice presidency — a post historically granted by custom to each parliamentary group.
Johann Wadephul, deputy chair of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, said the blockade had helped the AfD claim victimhood. He now supports allowing AfD candidates to chair committees “if they haven’t behaved inappropriately in the past,” he told RND.
Merz had already tested the waters during the election campaign — and received much criticism — by relying on AfD votes in parliament to push through a proposal on migration.
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