Overview
- On Saturday, Bundestag vice president Andrea Lindholz imposed a €2,000 Ordnungsgeld on Linke MP Cansin Köktürk after she accumulated three Ordnungsrufe within three Sitzungswochen under the 2025 Geschäftsordnung.
- The sanction followed Köktürk's shouted interventions during AfD MP René Springer's budget speech, when she called parts of his remarks "racist" and accused the chair of "protecting fascists," which prompted repeated warnings and her exit from the plenary.
- Köktürk immediately launched a GoFundMe appeal naming Sea‑Watch as the beneficiary and had raised most of a €16,000 target by Sunday, framing the fundraiser as a political response to the fine.
- Parliamentary leaders including Lindholz and Bundestag president Julia Klöckner defended the decision as necessary to protect order and dignity in the chamber and warned that a repeat could trigger a €4,000 fine under the same rule.
- The case sets a clear precedent for applying the 2025 disciplinary rules, and it could increase clashes between strict enforcement, visible protest by some MPs, and outside‑the‑chamber mobilization through social media and fundraising.