After the elections of September 24 in September, the new German parliament is now in place.
Wolfgang Schäuble, unanimously designated as chairman of the Bundestag by the CDU-Csu alliance, will then leave the Ministry of Finance. His election acquires particular relevance in a large Bundestag (of the 709 deputies, there are 94 from the populist anti-immigrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which obtained 13% of the votes) because, for the first time since Immediately after the war, a party of the extreme right will sit in the Berlin parliament.
Next Friday formal negotiations will begin for the formation of a coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel who will reunite her CDU-CSU party with the Greens and the Liberals. In second place, the Social Democrats return to the opposition after having ruled in the last four years together with Merkel's Christian Democrats. AfD has already announced that it wants to give battle to the government in Parliament, especially on the issue of immigration, and that it wants to ask for a commission of inquiry into Chancellor Merkel's decision to open the doors to refugees in the summer of 2015, a decision that it considers illegitimate.