Julia Klöckner of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has angered progressive lawmakers since being elected to the post of Bundestag president in March.

She announced that the rainbow Pride flag would not fly from the parliament building, the Reichstag, on Christopher Street Day on July 26, as it has done for the past couple of years.

Klöckner also decided that queer members of the Bundestag administration were not to attend the CSD parade in an official capacity.

On public broadcaster ARD Klöckner justified her decisions with her obligation to ensure the impartiality of the administration of the lower house of parliament.

Her stance prompted Green and Left Party parliamentarians to mount a protest by wearing color-coordinated clothes in the chamber to create their own rainbow.

By that time, Klöckner had already shown that she was going to enforce a strict interpretation of the Bundestag's clothing rules — these state, rather vaguely, that members' clothing must simply be "appropriate to the dignity of the chamber."

By that time, Klöckner had already shown that she was going to enforce a strict interpretation of the Bundestag's clothing rules — these state, rather vaguely, that members' clothing must simply be "appropriate to the dignity of the chamber."

In early June, that rule provided the Bundestag president with........

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