Josephine Ortleb is said to be Bundestag Vice President

Decisions on Monday

SPD politician Ortleb is said to be Bundestag Vice

Before the first meeting of the new Bundestag, the parties discuss important personal details. The focus: the occupation of the new parliamentary Presidium.

The previous parliamentary managing director Josephine Ortleb is to move into the Presidium of the new Bundestag for the SPD. Group leader Lars Klingbeil first wants to propose to the parliamentary board and then the entire faction to nominate the 38-year-old Saarbrücken as Vice President of Parliament, as T-Online learned from parliamentary groups. The parliamentary group still has to agree in the evening.

The specialist in gastronomy has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017 and has been one of five parliamentary managing directors of the parliamentary group since 2021. In her constituency she won the direct mandate three times in a row, in 2021 against the former Minister of Defense and then CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.

The new Presidium of the Bundestag is to be elected on Tuesday in the constituent session. The CDU/CSU parliamentary group has already proposed the former agricultural minister Julia Klöckner for the office of President of the Bundestag.

Andrea Lindholz has been nominated by the CSU national group for the office of Bundestag Vice President. The decision of the Union’s entire faction is still pending, but is considered a matter of form. This was announced by the CSU in the Bundestag on Monday.

The 54-year-old lawyer from Bavaria has represented the Aschaffenburg constituency in the Bundestag since 2013. In the past, she has been acted as a possible minister for the Interior or Justice.

Each faction in the Bundestag traditionally provides a vice president. The Greens decide in a secret coordination who goes into the race for them. Omid Nouripour, Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Claudia Roth are available.

The SPD wants to announce its decision on Monday evening. A spokeswoman did not give any names. The previous Bundestag Vice President Aydan Özoğuz will not run for her office again, she has no longer recovered to the important office for renewed nomination.

The left faction has announced that Bodo Ramelow, the former Prime Minister of Thuringia, nominate.

The AfD parliamentary group in the newly elected Bundestag plans to set up its MP Gerold Otten for the office of Vice President at the constituent meeting on Tuesday. Otten should be proposed for the election at a faction meeting on Monday evening, a parliamentary group spokesman for the AFP news agency said on Monday. According to a report by the dpa news agency, there had previously been four other interested parties from the ranks of the AfD parliamentary group. The parliamentary group meeting begins at 6 p.m.

After the Bundestag election on February 23, the AfD provides the second largest parliamentary group in parliament and has already registered its claim to fill a vice presidential post. Since her first moving into the Bundestag in 2017, she has not been represented in the parliamentary president. So far, all AfD candidates for a Vice President have not received the required majority.

Also this year it is not to be expected that the AfD candidate will confirm. “This office is a government office,” said CDU boss Friedrich Merz of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. “And I will not recommend the Union faction to vote for an AfD MP or an AfD MP in a state office.”