Quorum: Interior Ministers no longer necessarily decide unanimously
The interior ministers' conference is abandoning the principle of unanimity. In the future, 13 votes will be sufficient for resolutions. The change is primarily related to the AfD.
The German Interior Minister's Conference (IMK) has dropped its requirement for unanimous decisions. Instead, a majority of at least 13 out of 16 votes is now needed to pass a resolution. This change was made in anticipation of a possible AfD interior minister, as the previous system could have allowed the AfD to block important decisions. The IMK coordinates policy and makes joint decisions among the interior ministers and senators of Germany's federal states.
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