Three years after filing a challenge against the rapid legislative procedures surrounding the amendments to the heating law, former CDU Bundestag member Thomas Heilmann reports seeing little improvement. Heilmann told the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland” (Thursday editions) that, in his opinion, the practice of handing out hundreds of pages of amendments to the Bundestag in the dead of night, right before crucial committee sessions, has unfortunately not changed.
He had brought his case to the Federal Constitutional Court in 2023 because he felt there was insufficient time to thoroughly examine the revised heating law. However, he does not anticipate a groundbreaking decision from the Karlsruhe court.
“Even today, I think I made the right move back then,” Heilmann explained. The former politician criticized the governing parties, stating that both the Bundestag and the federal government had managed the legislative process poorly, even before his complaint and continuing to do so, which he argues leads to the avoidable devaluation of democracy.
While he feels the Constitutional Court made the correct initial assessment during the temporary injunction proceedings and raised the proper legal questions, Heilmann noted that the court appears to be struggling to build a concrete standard from this analysis-a measure against which legislative processes could be judged. Due to this, he suggests it is unlikely the court will deliver a far-reaching decision on Thursday, the day the ruling is expected.
