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The Saxon SPD is keeping a low profile when it comes to the question of its preferred candidate for chancellor. Of 13 sub-districts, only one has commented on the issue. And the party headquarters is also keeping quiet.
The Saxon SPD is keeping a low profile when it comes to the question of its preferred candidate for chancellor. Of 13 sub-districts, only one has commented on the issue. And the party headquarters is also keeping quiet.
Marco Wanderwitz sat in the Bundestag for over 20 years. Now he is no longer a candidate. His conclusion sounds sobering.
The early Bundestag elections are putting the parties under time pressure. As invitation deadlines also apply to the nomination of candidates, they have to be quick.
The Bundestag election will be a tight race for the Left Party. Polls currently put them at three or four percent of the second votes. The "Silberlocke" campaign is intended to help.
In the last Bundestag election, AfD leader Tino Chrupalla clearly won his constituency of Görlitz. He has now been re-elected as a direct candidate.
The Left Party does not want to stand on one leg like a flamingo in the Bundestag election campaign and is therefore pursuing a dual strategy. In addition to direct mandates, they also want to clear the five percent hurdle.
Election campaigning in the middle of winter - the parties are unlikely to be happy about that. Who likes campaigning on the streets in sub-zero temperatures? In Saxony, there are also the vacations.
It is now 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Bundestag is taking this as an opportunity for a debate. Its President also recalls the consequences for the people of East Germany.
Stationary border controls have been in place at all German land borders since mid-September. The number of unauthorized entries is falling. However, this also has to do with another aspect.
The coalition government wanted to grant the security authorities more powers to compare biometric data. However, the Bundesrat stopped the law for the time being - Saxony did not want to support it either.
In the Bundestag, the heads of the intelligence services report on the activities of Russian secret services. A dangerous case of sabotage is also discussed. The judiciary is active.
The candidacy for chancellor remained open for a long time, but now it is clear: Friedrich Merz will run for the CDU/CSU. Michael Kretschmer welcomes the decision.
There is criticism within the CDU/CSU of possible alliances with the BSW in Thuringia and Saxony. Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz calls for trust in the local negotiators.
The structure of the Federal Constitutional Court is to be enshrined in the Basic Law. Saxony's Justice Minister sees this as an important signal.
The annual response ranking by abgeordnetenwatch.de has a few surprises in store. Which Saxon MPs have excelled in communicating with citizens and who has fallen short of expectations? One politician stands out in particular - but not in a positive sense. Find out here how the Saxon members of the Bundestag fared in their dialog with citizens.
Saxony's Interior Minister believes that the population's sense of security has declined. In the Bundestag, he makes demands of the traffic light government.
The former Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany has long been campaigning for an attempt to ban the AfD. Now, according to his own statements, he has overcome an important hurdle on the way there.
The Left Party politician is also concerned about democracy in view of the outcome of the European elections - and points to failures during German unification. Take countermeasures now, demands Pau.
With the military turnaround, the Defense Committee has become more important. Now the committee has a new chairman.
Saxony's Energy and Environment Minister Wolfram Günther (Greens) criticizes the federal government for its lack of support for the domestic solar industry.
Saxony's Energy and Environment Minister Wolfram Günther (Greens) has described the German government's lack of support for the domestic solar industry as a "major pain point". Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) must ask himself why he is pushing parts of the solar industry "over the c ..
In a Bundestag debate on the police crime statistics for 2023, Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster called for more deportations at German borders. "We want to integrate sensibly", said the CDU politician on Wednesday in Berlin during a topical debate requested by the CDU/CSU. However, if too m ..
The Saxon Minister of the Interior warns of the consequences of the planned liberalization of cannabis and criticizes the law as a mistake on the part of the federal government.
Parliamentarians from various levels come together in Hanover to strengthen the political participation and inclusion of people with disabilities.
Bavaria critical of Bundestag's decision to legalize cannabis. Health Minister Gerlach examines legal steps. Federal Council makes final decision on March 22.
Berlin has partially repeated the Bundestag election of September 2021. The official final result is now available. But this is not the final step.
The new leadership of the Left Party in the Bundestag wants to implement concrete improvements to wages and pensions in eastern Germany. Strategy paper for the East 2030 in preparation.
The Left Party still has 28 MPs in the Bundestag. But even this small group is not always united. This was evident in the election of its leader.
Saxony's Minister-President Michael Kretschmer links the agreement of the CDU/CSU-led federal states to a planned growth package of the traffic light coalition to changes in the agreed reduction of agricultural diesel subsidies.
Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer has once again spoken out against the German government's planned cuts to agricultural diesel. "I have promised that we will not agree to this reduction in the Bundesrat on Friday," said the CDU politician ahead of the foreign cabinet meeting in Oschatz ..
The Presidium of the Bundestag is visiting Vogtland for two days to find out about challenges in rural areas. The focus will also be on democracy education initiatives, especially for children and young people. "Many people have the feeling that politics has become alienated from them and is no long ..
Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer has paid tribute to Wolfgang Schäuble as the architect of German unity. "We have lost one of the greatest servants of our country", the CDU politician wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday about his deceased party colleague. No one had shaped the F ..
Ahead of the government statement on the budget crisis, Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has called for leadership from Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).
Members of the Bundestag Detlef Müller (SPD) and Bernhard Herrmann (Greens) have criticized major problems with the Leipzig-Chemnitz rail link.
Saxony's Left Party politician André Hahn announces that he will not run again in the next federal election. After almost three decades in the state parliament of Saxony and the Bundestag, Hahn wants to pass the baton to younger people.
More than three decades after German reunification, some 30,000 requests for access to Stasi files are still made each year, according to a report by the Federal Archives.
From the federal budget, six nationally important cultural institutions in Saxony will be funded. The budget committee of the Bundestag released on Thursday almost 26 million euros for this purpose, as the Dresden FDP MP Torsten Herbst announced. The money is available for the renovation and moderni ..
Anyone submitting applications in Germany often has to do so with different authorities. At least in the case of heating subsidies, this is now to be bundled.
Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer wants to talk without preconditions about the "Germany Pact" proposed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to modernize the country. Out of civic responsibility, one should say yes to such talks and also not set any preconditions, the CDU politician said Wednesd ..
Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer wants to accept the "Germany Pact" announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on Wednesday and "test it for seriousness." "So far, the traffic light wanted to push through its agenda from Berlin without regard to the situation on the ground," the CDU politic ..