For six months, parliamentary control of the German intelligence services was the responsibility of politicians who were no longer represented in the Bundestag.
Patrick Sensburg (CDU) and Roman Reusch (AfD) were members of the control body until Wednesday, although they left the Bundestag in September.
Eleven newly elected members of parliament now sit on the secret committee.
Helen Bubrowski
Political correspondent in Berlin.
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The reason for the enormous delay in the election was a conflict between the Greens and the SPD over the appointment of the presidency.
The SPD wanted to give Uli Grötsch the office, the Greens also claimed it.
They argued that the chancellor, interior minister and defense minister belong to the SPD, which is responsible for the technical supervision of the federal intelligence service, the protection of the constitution and the military counter-intelligence service.
A compromise has now been found: Green Konstantin von Notz will head the committee from now until March 2024, after which Grötsch will take over for the remainder of the legislative period.
The members also include Sebastian Hartmann, Ralf Stegner, Marja-Liisa Völlers from the SPD, the former chairman Roderich Kiesewetter and Christoph de Vries from the CDU, Konstantin Kuhle and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff from the FDP, from the Greens Notz also Irene Mihalic.
The traffic light coalition had decided to increase the number of members to 13.
On Wednesday, however, only eleven candidates were elected, the members of the left and the AfD fell through.
André Hahn (left), who had belonged to the committee in the past legislative period, missed the required majority of 369 votes with 341 yes votes, 180 MPs voted against him.bThe AfD candidate Joachim Wundrak fell through more clearly, he only received 90 votes, That's ten more than the number of members in the AfD parliamentary group.