The Union has reacted to the draft bill from SPD and the Greens on the Bundestag police by taking a step back. The Union’s faction will “further intensively, but without pressure, deal with the presented possibilities” said Michael Breilmann (CDU), the responsible rapporteur of the Union’s faction in the Bundestag, to the Süddeutsche Zeitung (Friday edition). He sees “given the brevity of the time still available until the end of this legislative period” no immediate ability to reach an agreement on this complex initiative at the moment.
The Union is not available for quick fixes, so Breilmann. “The issue is too important to be broken over the knee.” Thoroughness comes before speed.
The existence of the Bundestag police is even anchored in the Basic Law, but there is no own law yet, in which their tasks and authorities are regulated. The coalition factions SPD and the Greens now want to change that. They also want to expand some authorities of the Bundestag police, so that the parliament can be better protected.
The protection of the parliament is an important concern for his faction, said Breilmann. One is “in this sense generally open” to a law, “as long as the proposed regulations are well-grounded, necessary, sensible, and proportional, and the interests of the states are taken into account and it can’t be better regulated elsewhere.” The Union’s faction will scrutinize the submitted draft in this respect.