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"Anyone who cannot credibly and unequivocally distance themselves from anti-Semitism and clan criminality for weeks cannot be a political partner for us Social Democrats in our federal capital," said Esra Limbacher (37), spokesperson for the powerful "Seeheimer Kreis," to which numerous SPD Bundestag members belong. #SPD #Koalition #Antisemitismus (translated)

The Hanover public prosecutor's office is investigating the SPD Bundestag member Adis Ahmetović and two other SPD politicians for possible acceptance of benefits and anti-competitive agreements in connection with a hospital site in Lehrte. #SPD #Ermittlungen #Bundestagsabgeordnete (translated)

The Left party supports the Bundestag member Ferat Koçak, who is under suspicion of antisemitism, and sees no need for further consequences, despite demands from the SPD and the Greens, which leads to internal tensions within the party. #Linke #Antisemitismus #Koalitionsstreit (translated)

Ansgar Schledde explained that in the local elections in the Hannover region, more than 3,000 outer ballot envelopes were opened prematurely in 14 out of 20 surrounding municipalities. He regarded this as a systematic violation of §59 of the Lower Saxony Municipal Election Code. The envelopes should have remained unopened and sealed; instead, ballots with the names and addresses of the voters became visible and were repackaged. The votes were then counted without verification, Schledde wrote. The procedure was ordered by the regional election office via email and was only stopped by the state election director four days before the election. Interior Minister Daniela Behrens (SPD) commented cautiously on the incident; supposedly, no impact on the election result was to be expected, criticized Schledde. He supported the objection of Bundestag member Dirk Brandes and announced a complete clarification as well as a legal examination. For the state elections in 2027, postal voting documents must be designed to prevent manipulation, and the rules must be adhered to. Those who violate the election regulations must face consequences, Schledde wrote. https://t.co/uzZye3DAPi #Wahlen #Demokratie #Niedersachsen (translated)

NIUS reported citing a response from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to an inquiry from AfD Member of Parliament Sebastian Münzenmaier that more than 148,000 people with open arrest warrants are being sought in Germany. 87.3 percent of them do not have German citizenship, 11.2 percent have only a German passport, and 1.5 percent have another nationality in addition to the German one. According to NIUS, the response was exclusively available to Welt am Sonntag. https://t.co/0i4i7xAiRw #Deutschland #Sicherheit #Migration (translated)

The cook wrote that Mathias Mogge had just returned from Gaza and had invited members of the Bundestag to listen to his experiences firsthand. However, no member had come. Koch referred to people in Gaza who were dying, starving, living in tents, and losing all hope, and described the absence of the lawmakers as indifference rather than ignorance. #Gaza #Menschenrechte #Politik (translated)

We take the BDZ's indications very seriously. Carsten Brodesser (59), CDU member of the Bundestag and reporter for the Union faction on the topic in the Finance Committee, made it clear in BILD: "We take the BDZ's indications very seriously." #Tabaksteuer #Rauchen #Schwarzmarkt (translated)

The AfD faction in the German Bundestag rejected the draft law for the International Compensation Commission for Ukraine. The AfD Bundestag member Gerold Otten, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, criticized the federal government for advancing international structures instead of focusing on diplomatic efforts to end the war. In his view, compensation issues should be part of a future peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Otten also warned against further financial obligations for Germany and pointed to unforeseeable long-term consequences of the commission. Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul had announced that the German ratification process would be completed by the end of the year. Otten stated that Germany needed a foreign policy that upheld German interests, avoided further escalation, and pushed for negotiations to end the war. #Ukraine #Außenpolitik #Frieden (translated)

Coxx wrote that, in his opinion, the constitutionally hostile controversies surrounding Die Linke in Berlin continued. He claimed that Elif Eralp had contacts with the PKK and met in August during the election campaign with a delegation of Kurdish organizations, which also included members of NAV Berlin. According to Coxx, the security authorities classified the association as a front organization for the prohibited PKK. He also pointed out that the Left Party member of the Bundestag, Ferat Koçak, had previously spoken out against a PKK ban in Germany. #DieLinke #PKK #Berlin (translated)

Ahmad Mansour referred to a contribution from a member of the Bundestag from the Left Party as "Exhibit No. 74323." He asked whether anyone would publish something like that if they wanted to show even a hint of reflection in the current situation. https://t.co/f87eduqCke #Bundestag #DieLinke #Reflexion (translated)

Manaf Hassan criticized the closeness of Federal Constitutional Court President Stephan Harbarth to the political leadership. A photo from the weekend in Bremen shows Harbarth at the state ceremony for the Day of German Unity directly next to leading politicians, he wrote. The court president must stand for the separation of powers, but had previously served as a CDU member of the Bundestag, a member of the CDU federal executive, and as deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag. Harbarth had switched from the faction leadership to the Federal Constitutional Court in November 2018 and was elected vice president the day after his election as a judge. About a year and a half later, he became president. Hassan described it as unusual that Harbarth reached the head of the court without prior judicial activity in Karlsruhe. Before that, Harbarth had worked as a partner in a law firm that split from Shearman & Sterling in 2008, becoming SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz. Until 2004, Hanno Berger also worked there in Frankfurt on tax law. Berger is considered a central developer of the Cum-Ex transactions, in which banks and investors received refunds for capital gains tax that they had never paid. Experts estimate the damage, according to Hassan, at a double-digit billion amount. Berger later advised, among others, the Hamburg Warburg Bank and has since been legally convicted. Harbarth worked during those years in the Mannheim office of the law firm; what he knew about Berger's activities remains unclear, Hassan wrote. Additionally, Hassan referred to decisions and proceedings at the Federal Constitutional Court: The First Senate under Harbarth's chairmanship had examined and largely approved central Corona measures in 2021. In the Second Senate, there has been a complaint regarding the election review from BSW for almost two years, which wants to achieve a recount of the federal election and entry into the Bundestag. If BSW were to enter Parliament retroactively, the black-red coalition would lose its own majority, according to Hassan. He asked how Harbarth could be at the head of the court while also publicly standing next to the government, whose actions the court should control. #Bremen #Bundesverfassungsgericht #Politik (translated)

Apollo News reported that the Left Party Bundestag member Cansın Köktürk referred to Israel in a video clip as a state that commits genocide and apartheid, and called for the liberation of the occupied Palestinian territories. According to her words, her support for a free Palestine will last until her last breath or until Palestine is free. https://t.co/h1srqCZili #Palästina #Israel #Menschenrechte (translated)

The author predicted that the CDU would fall to 9 to 12 percent nationwide and the CSU in Bavaria to under five percent if the Union continued to stick with Friedrich Merz. He also wrote that about two-thirds of the current CDU Bundestag members would then need to look for a new job. #CDU #Politik #FriedrichMerz #DE (translated)

The entire story deemed it ridiculous that the Greens had explicitly spoken out against German unity in 1989, according to their own statements. As evidence, the author referred to a statement made by Bundestag member Gerald Häfner on June 15, 1989 (page 11057) and a statement from Joschka Fischer in the Hesse state parliament on September 20, 1989 (page 3774). Additionally, he quoted a declaration stating that the Greens rejected any reunification policy and emphasized the sovereignty of the GDR. This position was adopted by the Bundestag faction after a two-day retreat session with a large majority. https://t.co/z2VtzvtbOW #Wiedervereinigung #Deutschland #Grüne (translated)

"The election campaign of Trump is not an emergency. This release is a political folly. The EU is making itself small and weak." The Green Party member of the Bundestag, Michael Kellner, criticized the release of the reserves. #StraßevonHormus #Ölpreise #Nahostkonflikt (translated)