Overview
- Bundestag Vice President Josephine Ortleb ordered four Die Linke lawmakers to leave after they displayed a Palestine flag in the chamber.
- The action occurred during budget deliberations while CSU member Stephan Mayer was speaking on the Foreign Office allocation.
- The MPs were identified as Vinzenz Glaser, Cansin Köktürk, Charlotte Neuhäuser and Lisa Schubert, and staff removed the flag from the floor.
- Ortleb also had a photographer escorted from the gallery to check for any coordination with the protest.
- Köktürk defended the move in an Instagram video and urged turnout for a planned pro‑Palestine demonstration in Berlin on Saturday, following months of tightened display rules and her June ejection over a "Palestine" T‑shirt.