(Adnkronos) – The German Constitutional Court has rejected legal actions by several political parties against the extraordinary sessions of the outgoing Bundestag wanted by the parties that are negotiating the formation of the future government to approve the spending package agreed by the Cdu/Csu and Spd, and today welcomed by the Greens. The Court ruled that the appeals filed (by the Afd and the Linke, the Left) are unfounded, that the parliament in office still has a say, given that the new one has not yet taken office. The Constitution – the court specified – establishes that the electoral mandate of the outgoing Bundestag ends when the new one meets, on 25 March. “Until then, the old Bundestag is not limited in its power to act”.
The Constitutional Court’s decision paves the way for the vote scheduled for next Tuesday in the Bundestag as part of the second extraordinary session called to approve the 500 billion package for infrastructure and climate and for defense, to be financed through a loosening of the debt brake. The Union and the Spd would not have found the two-thirds majority in favor in the new parliament: now that the agreement has also been welcomed by the Greens, the measure should pass to the old Bundestag on Tuesday. The extraordinary sessions were convened after a third of the members of the Bundestag in office, in this case the Social Democratic and Conservative parliamentary groups, requested it, as required by Article 39 of the Basic Law, the Constitution.
