A AfD Bundestag member, Ulrike Schielke-Ziesing, has announced her intention to run for the chair of the Budget Committee in the next legislative period. “Who from us runs for the chair, will be decided by the AfD’s budget members of the new Bundestag, I want to put myself forward and would be pleased if I were nominated” Schielke-Ziesing told the news magazine Politico.
Her chances for a nomination appear good, as the current budget spokesperson of the AfD faction, Peter Boehringer, has already held the position of Budget Committee chair from 2018 to 2021 and has decided not to run for the post again, as he stated in a statement. He plans to focus more on European policy issues in the Bundestag in the future. In the Bundestag, it has been a common practice for the chair of the Budget Committee to come from the ranks of the largest opposition faction.