German Bundestag, May 6, 2025, Plenarprotokoll 21/2, p. 44.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Herr Merz, you have failed. This is a historic defeat, as has never been in this Bundestag. Your own members deny to you adherence. And it is no wonder regarding this scale of election fraud, in election promises which you have broken. I hope there are intelligent people in the CDU, those who have brought about that you did not win the vote, who want that the CDU again comes back to a reasonable way. And that is still possible, ladies and gentlemen.
There is now a second ballot. We do not reject it; since the cards need to be on the table. Germany requires now a government. We do not prevent that, we support that. Yet even if you, Herr Merz, now obtain a vote in favor – you have, ja, spoken with all here: With Greens, with the Linke, with the SPD – that changes nothing. This government begins in most extreme instability, and it will remain unstable. That is the opposite of what Germany requires, ladies and gentlemen.
Since it is clear – the election result shows: There is a majority, Herr Merz. For all points for which you have spoken in the election campaign, there is here a majority. Each member is elected from the people, the sovereign. Each member who is here, these majorities which are here, are by the will of the people. And following the will of the people, all demands which you have raised, which you have overtaken from us, can be implemented. You prevent that. That is the instability in the Bundestag, that is the instability in Germany.
We of the AfD not only vote for holding this second ballot because the cards need to be on the table, we now also stand ready at anytime for reasonable solutions for Germany, as they appear in our program, as we have represented them in the election campaign, and also as you represented them in the election campaign. We are available for reasonable solutions for Germany at anytime. It thus remains, ladies and gentlemen.
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