Due to a lack of party discipline, the Hamburg Green Party MP Miriam Block has been relieved of her parliamentary group offices. On Monday evening, after hours of deliberation, 22 MPs agreed to a proposal by the party and parliamentary group executives as well as the Green Senate members to vote Block out as science and university policy spokeswoman. According to a spokesman, 7 MPs voted against it at a parliamentary group meeting. According to the information, 25 (with 5 no votes) and 20 (with 9 no votes) MPs also agreed to their dismissal from the interior and science committee of the citizenship.
The background to this was the dispute over the establishment of a parliamentary investigative committee (PUA) to investigate the NSU murder of the Hamburg greengrocer Süleyman Taşköprü in 2001. The left-wing faction had submitted a corresponding application the week before last, which the block had approved, although the Greens had disagreed with their coalition partner SPD had previously agreed on a scientific review of the NSU complex instead of a PUA. The party leadership accused the 33-year-old of having harmed the Greens through their voting behavior and their communication on the subject.
The deselection and dismissal from the parliamentary group offices are “the consequence of the behavior of the MPs in recent weeks,” said the parliamentary group leader Dominik Lorenzen. “The deputy has repeatedly violated common agreements and shared rules of communication. From the point of view of the parliamentary group, the step that has now been taken is therefore necessary, but at the same time it was not easy for everyone involved.”