The vote came after Brandner had ignored calls for his resignation following a series of controversial Tweets he had made. It marked the first time in the Bundestag’s 70 year history that a committee chairman had been voted out. While the AfD is entitled to head the Legal Affairs Committee, the party has decided not to propose a new committee chairman for the time being. Brandner was “not suitable,” said Marco Buschmann, an FDP member of the legal committee. READ ALSO: German politicians accuse AfD chief of echoing HitlerAfter the controversial tweets he made about Halle, MPs from all factions except AfD had declared Brandner unacceptable and demanded his resignation, which he rejected.

Source: The Local November 13, 2019 16:37 UTC