Politics

Germany still without a quota for women

The black-yellow coalition has let the introduction of a mandatory quota for women on supervisory boards fail in the Bundestag. In the roll-call vote 598 votes were cast. 320 representatives of the CDU and FDP, as expected, voted with the majority against the red-green initiative to introduce such a scheme. There were no dissenters in the CDU / CSU. A total of 277 MPs voted for the bill. There was one abstention. Black-yellow has over 330 of the total 620 votes in the Bundestag. The coalition and the opposition had previously accused one another of insincerity. The plan, also supported by Ursula von der Leyen (CDU), was to introduce a quota for women on supervisory boards of listed companies and gradually increase it to 40 per cent.  The Labour Minister thereby triggered a debate in the CDU on why the Christian Democrats now as a result advocate a 30-per-cent quota from 2020 in their election manifesto.