Overview
- The Parliamentary Control Panel remains without seats for Die Linke and the AfD after the latest vote.
- In the secret ballot, Clara Bünger received 271 votes, with 285 against and 20 abstentions, leaving her 45 short of the threshold.
- It was the party’s second failed attempt this term, following Heidi Reichinnek’s defeat in June.
- The nine-member body oversees the BND, MAD and BfV; the Union holds the chair under Marc Henrichmann with two other members, the SPD has two and the Greens one.
- In a separate decision, party leader Ines Schwerdtner failed to secure a place on the federal debt-control committee with 253 yes, 284 no, 31 abstentions and seven invalid votes.