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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Die Ausschusseinsetzung des Deutschen Bundestages in der 19. Wahlperiode
Beteiligte:
Heynckes, Heinz-Willi
Erschienen:
Nomos Verlag, 2019
Erschienen in:
Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 50 (2019) 2, Seite 351-367
Sprache:
Ohne Angabe
DOI:
10.5771/0340-1758-2019-2-351
ISSN:
0340-1758
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Beschreibung:
The first time arrival of the AfD in the Bundestag focused public attention on the distribution of committee chairmanships . The process of determining who chairs which committees is still based on an old German parliamentary custom whereby the committee chairs are allocated in accordance to a calculation method adopted in advance by the House and based on the relative strengths of the parliamentary groups . Following that procedure the AfD group is entitled to chairing three committees . The Reichstag procedures for appointing committee chairpersons were intentionally incorporated into the Rules of Procedure of the Bundestag and specify that committees are to ‘appoint’ their chairs in accordance to the agreements reached by the Council of Elders . An election is not prescribed . This has been standard practice throughout the course of many electoral terms . In the 19th electoral term objections against the candidates nominated by the AfD group were raised and the committees called for a vote to be taken . The AfD group argued that the Bundestag Rules of Procedure make no provisions for a vote on committee chairmanships and that the agreement reached by the parliamentary groups on their distribution was binding for the committees . Quite rightly, votes were ultimately taken because a presumptive binding effect of the parliamentary group decisions is superimposed by the freedom of the MPs in the exercise of their mandate . A Member cannot be compelled to vote for anyone for whom he or she does not wish to vote . Due to the new larger size of the Bundestag, the committees have grown in size . This led to an increase in the restrictions on speaking time . Such curbs are also permissible at the committee stage as long as they do not impair the fairness of parliamentary proceedings .