US EditionGermany's Constitutional Court Becomes Political Football
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Söder calls on the SPD to renounce its candidate. The Union would have to pay the price for it. The AfD could also benefit from the proposal to elect the constitutional judges by a simple majority.
SPD Calls German Bishops “Unchristian” for Raising Concerns Over Late-Term Abortion
The social democrat SPD’s parliamentary group leader, Matthias Miersch, hit back at criticism voiced by several Catholic bishops over the party’s radical left-wing candidate for the Constitutional Court, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf—who believes unborn life deserves no human rights and wants to legalize abortion up to birth—calling the concerned religious leaders “unchristian.” “I am very outraged at how prominent bishops and cardinals have become in…
In the dispute over the election of Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf as constitutional judge, SPD, Greens and Left strongly criticize the Union. This is partly grotesque.
With her no to the SPD candidate, the Union is responsible for the constitutional court for coalition disputes. The SPD is behind Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, as well as ex-constitutional judges and legal scientists.
The SPD leader Miersch has criticised the Catholic Church in connection with the postponement of the constitutional judge's election.
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