Germany Bundestag elects four vice presidents - AfD man fails
Following the election of CDU politician Julia Klöckner, the new German Bundestag has also elected four deputies in its first session.
25.03.2025, 16:06
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Andrea Lindholz (CSU), Josephine Ortleb (SPD), Omid Nouripour (Greens) and Bodo Ramelow (Left Party) were elected to the Parliamentary Bureau. The AfD candidate Gerold Otten did not receive the required number of votes and failed.
Interior politician Lindholz was most recently deputy chairwoman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. Ortleb was Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group. Nouripour headed the Greens as party leader until November 2024. Ramelow governed the federal state of Thuringia as Minister President for ten years until December 2024.
The Bundestag had previously decided that Klöckner should have five deputies as president. Since the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered the Bundestag in 2017, none of its deputies have ever received the required number of votes. This is because the majority of the other parliamentary groups did not support their candidates.
