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Exclusive: Germany’s Opposition Parties Push for Parliamentary Investigation into VW

Germany’s opposition parties plan to request a parliamentary investigation into Volkswagen’s diesel emissions scandal and the role of Germany’s transportation minister, Alexander Dobrindt, Handelsblatt has learned.

The Left Party and the Green Party will meet Thursday to finalize the details and discuss exactly what the committee’s role should be, Dietmar Bartsch, the parliamentary leader of the Left Party, told Handelsblatt.

While the two opposition parties have less than a quarter of the seats in Germany’s Bundestag, they have the power to push through a parliamentary investigation due to a change in the rules since Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and the left-leaning SPD formed a grand coalition in 2014.