US Edition“Stop AfD at Any Cost”: Rule of Law Takes a Back Seat in Germany
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“Stop AfD at Any Cost”: Rule of Law Takes a Back Seat in Germany
Germany’s declining establishment parties are again undermining the very institutions they pretend to defend in order to limit the capabilities of the rising Alternative for Germany (AfD). In Rhineland-Palatinate, in the southwest of the country, where the populist party recently secured a record election result, the CDU/CSU, SPD and Greens are teaming up to alter the constitution. They want to change the rules for parliamentary inquiry committe…
Quorum for investigative committees is expected to rise from 20 to 25 percent, which means that the AfD could no longer apply for such committees alone.
CDU, SPD and Greens want to change the state constitution with the elected state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate in order to exercise minority rights by ... The post Elected state parliament is to change constitution – to prevent AfD committees of inquiry appeared first on Apollo News.
In Rhineland-Palatinate, CDU, SPD and Greens want to change the state constitution, increasing the barriers to the establishment of U-committees. The AfD, which speaks of an intervention in its control rights, would be affected.
A committee of inquiry is one of the most important means for the opposition to hold the government accountable for errors, which, like a court, can request files, summon witnesses and hear them. In Rhineland-Palatinate, it is necessary to have one fifth of the members of the parliament agree to convene such a committee. In other words, in the new parliament, the AfD could do so without the votes of another faction. CDU, SPD and Greens now want …
CDU, SPD and Greens change the constitution – quickly, quietly and purposefully, before the new Landtag even meets. What they do there has a name. Only not the one they would use themselves. The article Mainzer Hütchenspieler: CDU, SPD and Green Manipulate Constitution was first published on reitschuster.de.
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