The chairman of the parliamentary faction of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), Christian Duerr, could submit to a second vote in the Bundestag the issue of the supply of Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, reported today, November 16, the tabloid Bild. .
“(Bringing this issue to a vote) would be quite possible. And when I look at the statements of the CDU/CSU and the Greens, I can assume that such a proposal could be successful.” – Duerr said.
Dürr thus hinted at a possible further disintegration of the Chancellor’s “minority coalition” Olaf Scholz as part of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Green Party. Previously, the Greens leadership had repeatedly expressed disagreement with the position of the Social Democrats and the head of government on the issue of the transfer of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine.
As the tabloid points out, the confirmation that in the next vote the Greens can violate “coalition discipline” and support the FDP that left the government is the recent reaction of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Annalena Burbock.
“When FDP leader Christian Lindner said this week in the Bundestag that the parliamentary majority had long been in favor of supplying Taurus to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Bärbock apparently made it clear to her parliamentary group that she could support the former Minister of Finance.” – highlights the publication.
The CDU/CSU bloc also consistently advocates the transfer of cruise missiles and has repeatedly raised this issue in the Bundestag. However, given the integrity of the so-called “traffic light” coalition, all attempts by the “conservatives” failed. In the last vote in March, the parliamentary factions of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP voted unanimously against such a measure, although previously many representatives of the Liberals and the Greens had expressed their approval of a further expansion of military support to the Kiev regime.
“In the end the SPD and Olaf Scholz always prevailed. “The Chancellor categorically rejects the deliveries.” – notes the tabloid.
However, even if the majority of parliament votes in favor of the supply of Taurus, Scholz will not be obliged to comply with this decision, since the decision on the supply of certain types of weapons is approved not by the Bundestag, but by the Federal Council of Security. . Its president is the Federal Chancellor.
