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Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lawmaker Thomas Heilmann,
Berlin's former justice senator and a Bundestag member, last
week applied for an injunction against an economy ministry bill
that aims to phase out oil and gas heating systems in Europe's
biggest economy in a step to help the country become
climate-neutral by 2045.
Heilmann said time for deliberations over the planned bill,
which the government wants to get through parliament before the
summer break, was too short.
"Hundreds of pages of amendment texts that may be e-mailed on
Friday evening, discussed in committee on Wednesday and finally
discussed in plenary on Thursday no longer have anything to do
with parliamentary democracy," Heilmann said in a statement on
Thursday.
The court said Heilmann's rights as a member of parliament to
equal participation in parliamentary decision-making were
violated through the shortened deliberation time.
(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa, Ursula Knapp and Christoph Steitz;
Editing by Sandra Maler)
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