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Michael Grosse-Brömer, First Parliamentary Managing Director of the Union Group
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It was the next scandal that the AfD had caused in the Bundestag: On Wednesday, visitors who had been given access to the building at the invitation of the right-wing populists pressed MPs from other parties in the hallways of the Reichstag.
But the incident has consequences for the AfD.
This Friday, the parliamentarians deal with the incidents in a current hour - and the other groups are sharply attacking the AfD.
Since the AfD has been in the Bundestag, it is only a matter of decrying it and "dragging the other parties into the mud," said its first parliamentary manager Michael Grosse-Brömer.
The pressure on MPs by visitors who had invited AfD MPs is an "attack on the free mandate" and on democracy, said the CDU politician.
"That's where the fun really ends."
During the Bundestag debate on the Infection Protection Act on Wednesday, delegates were molested, filmed and insulted by visitors in the corridors of the Reichstag building.
This happened, among others, Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier (CDU) and the FDP domestic politician Konstantin Kuhle.
A security report by the Bundestag police shows that the four visitors were invited by the three AfD MPs Udo Hemmelgarn, Petr Bystron and Hansjörg Müller.
The AfD parliamentary group leader Alexander Gauland said the behavior of the guests was "uncivilized" and was not their own.
"I apologize for that as the parliamentary group leader." The visitors had, however, gone through the security checks.
"We couldn't have expected something like this to happen."
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