if Bundestag members were to be involved in practical matters, they should also be allowed to discuss them. Gert Weisskirchen (SPD) championed the work: For the FDP politician Ulrich Heinrich, Haacke's work of art symbolizes the transition from jus sanguinis to jus soli. Haacke's work raises questions of a highly political nature, according to Wolfgang Thierse, then president of the German Bundestag and one of the project's main supporters: According to Thierse, what is important is that viewers develop their own position and think critically about Haacke's project. A cross-party group motion against the erection of the work of art was ultimately rejected by 260 votes to 258. Up to the current legislative period (June 2020), about 400 Bundestag members from all political groups have participated by depositing soil from their constituencies into the artwork. Comments from the media and general population In a commentary, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) accused Haacke of wanting to “take away” the Bundestag from the German people, and that the work was unconstitutional – a judgement that was also reached by a legal opinion commissioned by the CDU. That each member of the Bundestag should pour a sack of earth from his constituency into a trough was evaluated by aesthetes among Haacke's critics as being akin to a "kitschy church day community ritual"; other critics saw it "as a problematic reminiscence of Nazi soil rituals." The Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler (Federal Association of Fine Artists) criticized the fact that it was not the Bundestag's art committee but the German Bundestag that was taking the final decision regarding the artwork's acquisition; that individual members of parliament were trying “by means of plenary votes to win a majority based on judgements of personal taste, particularly regarding Hans Haacke’s artwork, and thus to refer decisions on the quality of artworks to an incompetent body, namely the plenary of the German Bundestag.” Copyright of the artwork The artwork later attracted unexpected online attention when a photo of the installation was forbidden by the artist to be shown on a private website. Via the German copyright agency VG Bild-Kunst, Haacke denied the blog owner the right to present a photographic reproduction of his work on the internet. While the artist is legally entitled to this under German copyright law (a general right to present photographs of artworks in public exists only insofar as these artworks are in public