AFD candidate Mariana Harder-Kühnel fails in the first round of voting

In fact, the AfD is one of the vice-presidents of the Bundestag. But now, for the second time, a party candidate has failed in elections.

AfD MP Mariana Harder-Kühnel did not get the required majority in the first round of the election as vice-president of the Bundestag. The 44-year-old won only 223 of the 654 votes cast. 387 members voted against. The SPD had previously announced that it would vote against Harder-Kühnel. The CSU had returned its vote to the deputies.

This means that Bundestag Speaker Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) has not yet been elected more than a year after the elections.

New departure in December

After her defeat, Harder-Kühnel declared that she was available for further polls. "It was not enough in the first round of voting, but we still have at least two laps to go," said Mariana Harder-Kühnel. "I think I will eventually be elected too." A second vote should be held in December, a third could possibly be given in January, announced AfD chief Alexander Gauland.

"No objections were raised against me before the elections," Harder-Kühnel said. It's much more about the fact that you do not want to choose anyone among the AfDs. She offered direct interviews with other parties to dispel doubts. At Albrecht Glaser, a first candidate for AFD had already failed long after three polls.

Moderate candidate

Glaser had mainly been criticized for expressing his views on Islam. He deprived Muslims in Germany of the right to freedom of religion, as the Basic Law proves, because, in his opinion, Islam itself does not know freedom of religion.

At its constitutive meeting of October 24, 2017, the Bundestag decided that each parliamentary group could appoint a vice-president of the Bundestag or vice-president of the Bundestag.

Harder-Kühnel is one of the most moderate members of the AfD group. The lawyer was at the forefront of the list of states of Hesse in the Bundestag. She is currently one of the secretaries of the Bundestag and a full member of the family committee. She has also been an alternate member of the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs.