"The German parliament failed to complete one of its more important constitutional tasks in July, right before it went into summer recess (14.07.2025): The planned vote on three vacant positions of the panel of judges in the Constitutional Court was removed from the agenda at short notice. The reason: It became apparent that one of the candidates, jurist and professor Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, would not receive enough votes because of a lack of support from conservatives in the ruling bloc."
"This was not supposed to have been a problem, as the opposition Greens and the Left Party had signaled that they would vote for Brosius-Gersdorf, who had been nominated by the SPD. But then it emerged at the last minute that more than twenty CDU lawmakers would not support her especially because of her liberal stance on abortion."
"A few hours before the planned vote, the CDU demanded that the SPD withdraw Brosius-Gersdorf's nomination, citing new allegations that she might have plagiarized her PhD dissertation in 1997, which were later dismissed. The Bundestag session was interrupted and, after crisis talks, the Bundestag voted to postpone all three scheduled elections."
The Bundestag removed a planned vote on three Constitutional Court judges from the agenda in July because SPD nominee Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf lacked sufficient support from conservatives in the ruling bloc. The governing CDU/CSU and SPD do not hold the two-thirds majority required for appointments, so opposition backing was necessary. Greens and the Left had signaled support, but over twenty CDU lawmakers opposed Brosius-Gersdorf mainly over her liberal position on abortion. The AfD opposed her as well, and last-minute plagiarism allegations prompted the CDU to demand withdrawal, leading to an interrupted session and postponed votes.
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