Overview

• Parliamentary managers Steffen Bilger (CDU) and Dirk Wiese (SPD) informed MPs in a joint letter that Emmenegger is the SPD’s new pick to succeed Doris König in the Second Senate.
• Sigrid Emmenegger, 48, serves on the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig and previously worked at the Constitutional Court as a research associate and held posts at Koblenz and the Rhineland‑Palatinate higher administrative court.
• Coalition leaders aim to hold the Bundestag vote later in September, with several reports pointing to 26 September for the plenary ballot.
• Greens co‑leader Britta Haßelmann and Left Party MP Clara Bünger criticized the process for lacking prior consultation, leaving their factions’ support open.
• The two other candidates advanced earlier—Günther Spinner (Union) and Ann‑Katrin Kaufhold (SPD)—remain in the process, and if the Bundestag fails to reach a two‑thirds majority a Bundesrat fallback mechanism could be triggered under current law.