Overview

• The Bundestag’s Wahlausschuss on July 7 nominated SPD’s Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, Ann-Katrin Kaufhold and CDU’s Günter Spinner for the Federal Constitutional Court
• Even with CDU/CSU backing, the SPD-Greens-FDP bloc falls short of the two-thirds threshold required to confirm the nominees in Friday’s plenary vote
• The Union refuses to cooperate with The Left under its “Unvereinbarkeitsbeschluss,” and the AfD leadership has ruled out backing the SPD-nominated candidates, deepening the deadlock
• In the Haushaltsausschuss, Greens and The Left demanded a fuller probe into Margaretha Sudhof’s pandemic mask-procurement report after Jens Spahn’s conflicting testimony
• In Frankfurt, the Greens-SPD-Volt coalition continues to govern without a majority after the FDP’s exit, relying on ad hoc support from CDU or The Left for each measure