Overview
- Bundestag President Julia Klöckner circulated a pre-Christmas letter proposing an Abgeordnetengesetz amendment to stop state funding for employees who fail reliability checks and are denied house passes or IT access.
- Recent reporting says current access denials involve five employees of AfD members of parliament and two staffers of the AfD parliamentary group.
- AfD parliamentary manager Bernd Baumann condemned the plan as an attempt to choke off staff pay and labeled it a backdoor party ban.
- Leaders from other parties signaled cautious support, with Green deputy Konstantin von Notz and CSU’s Alexander Hoffmann stressing that work for MPs should align with constitutional commitments.
- Key operational and legal questions remain unresolved, and no change has yet been enacted, though the Bundestag previously announced such access refusals on September 17, 2025.