The German Parliament approved the appointment of three new judges of the Constitutional Court on Thursday. In the July deadline, this failed for the controversy around the nominee of the Social Democrats (SPD). According to DPA and Reuters reports, TASR reports this.
Bundestag confirmed two original SPD nominations – Professor of Law Ann -Katrin Kauffold and Judge Sigrid Emmenegger. Judge Günter Spinner, as a candidate for the Conservatives in this vote, replaced the originally selected professor Frauke Brosius Gersdorf, who gave up the candidacy because her opinions on abortion were induced by controversy.
All three coalition government nominees composed of the SPD and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) have received at least two thirds of the votes present in Parliament. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier formally appoints three judges in early October.
“This election today ended the phase of uncertainty, which began with the canceled choice of judges in July,“He said the parliamentary leader of the CDU/CSU Jens Spahn. He added that the coalition of Friedrich Merza’s office” has re -stood on his feet “.
According to DPA, it is not clear whether the government selection also supported the alternative for Germany (AfD) in a secret vote. The judges of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe are appointed for 12 years and cannot be elected again after their mandate. Half of the 16 judges are selected by the Lower Chamber of Parliament – Federal Assembly (Bundestag) and the other half of the Upper Chamber – Bundesrat.
According to Reuters, it belongs German Constitutional Court among the most powerful courts in the world, Since his decisions have in the past rejected budgets and packages of European financial assistance (so -called bailouts), which in several cases caused the falls of governments.
