The new law on military service was removed earlier tonight by Bundestag’s agenda due to disagreement of government coalition parties. At the last minute, a press conference was also canceled, in which the government’s proposal was to be presented.
According to a report by the first channel of German public television ARDgovernment partners had already reached an agreement yesterday, which was said to have rejected members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary group, disagreeing with with the drawing systemfrom which the young people who would have to serve if the volunteers would not be sufficient. Many MPs of SPD, according to ARDthey argue that this provision conceals compulsory military service, which is opposed to their party in principle.
The results of the negotiations were presented in the afternoon in parliamentary groups, with the head of the MPs of the Christian Union (CDU/CSU) Gen. Span to speak of ‘Good solution’ and his SPD counterpart Mathias Mirs to talk only about ‘Central Points’ which are “Good basis for discussion in parliamentary procedures”. Later, a CDU/CSU representative said that “We have canceled the press conference because the pursued agreement was not reached” And he clarified that it is unknown when the bill will be tabled at the Bundestag.
The discussion within the government coalition concerns whether The planned military service should be based solely on voluntary rankingas the Minister of Defense had originally proposed Boris Pistorius (SPD), or will also include compulsory elements, as the Union requests, expressing doubts about whether the Bundeswehr needs can really be met on an exclusive voluntary basis. After painful negotiations, the information leaked that a system will be found that will allow, if there are not enough volunteers, to take a draw Among those who have already completed the mandatory questionnaire in order to determine who will be militant for at least six months. The exact number should be determined by the Minister of Defense.
The Christian Democratic Party (CDU) on defense issues Norbert Rutgen attacked last night at Boris Pistoriusaccusing him of “Torpedo the legislative process and behaves devastating”while calling the SPD “To arrange his home.”
Last week, the issue was first removed from the Bundestag’s agenda, with the CDU/CSU calling for a volunteer conversion clause into compulsory recruitment. Yesterday it was removed for the second time due to the discrepancy of the parties. According to her information BildMr. Pistorius resisted the request for a draw systemciting constitutional issues.
Source :Skai
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