US EditionElection of Judges: After the Crisis Is (Hopefully Not) Before the Crisis
- The German Bundestag will vote on Thursday to elect three judges to the Federal Constitutional Court, replacing outgoing members.
- This election follows a scrapped July 11th vote after SPD nominee Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf withdrew amid union opposition, prompting new candidate nominations.
- Candidates include SPD nominees Ann-Kathrin Kaufhold and Sigrid Emmenegger, and CDU/CSU nominee Günter Spinner, requiring a two-thirds majority to win.
- The vote is viewed as a test for the coalition amid political challenges, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended reforms as aiming to preserve a modern social state.
- The election outcome could influence judicial balance and political confidence as Germany faces economic stagnation and calls for infrastructure and social project implementation.
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The Bundestag has approved the replacement of three judges at the Federal Constitutional Court. The two lawyers, Ann-Katrin Kaufhold and Sigrid Emmenegger, as well as the Union candidate Günter Spinner, were elected by the SPD. All three achieved the required two-thirds majority.
The first election had to be postponed because the Union parties and the SPD fought for a candidate. Now everything went silently over the stage. Sigrid Emmenegger, the substitute candidate for Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, received the most votes.
In the second attempt, the Bundestag elected three new judges for the Federal Constitutional Court. "As long as the CDU clings to the left, to the SPD and to the Greens, there will be no change in the Republic," says Bernd Baumann (AfD).
The new constitutional judges have been elected, the state crisis has been averted, but the damage to democracy remains. The Union is primarily responsible for this.
A crisis of the federal government from the Union and SPD is averted: All three nominated candidates for the Constitutional Court were elected in the Bundestag on Thursday.
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