The AfD is seething.
Groups within the party are to work on a comeback of the "wing".
The right-wing extremist association was officially dissolved in 2020.
Berlin / Munich - The “wing” is a “right-wing extremist endeavor”, judged the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in March 2020. Since Björn Höcke founded the group within the AfD * in 2015, the party's right wing has gathered in the “wing”.
However, the influential association disbanded in the spring of last year after the Office for the Protection of the Constitution announced that it was observing the "wing".
The decision of the authority would have allowed the use of informants, so-called V-men and other intelligence means.
But now there are reports of a planned comeback of the AfD association.
AfD: party leadership on the planned "wing" return: "not acceptable and harmful to the party"
The AfD federal executive wants to investigate reports on the establishment of new structures of the "wing" classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Information on this from Lower Saxony had been leaked to him "within the party, like many others," said AfD chairman Jörg Meuthen * on Friday of the dpa. "We have that on the screen," added Meuthen.
Meuthen is indignant about the plans to return the wing: "As far as there is an attempt to build parallel structures, it is definitely unacceptable and harmful to the party." In February 2021, the group planned to reactivate old "wing" structures at a meeting in Lower Saxony, writes the dpa, referring to sources in the party. The self-proclaimed "patriots" were planning a comeback of the right-wing extremist association without including elected district associations.
The Secretary General of the Lower Saxony AfD, Nicolas Lehrke, said: "We are only aware of corresponding reports from the media, which is why we do not yet have a complete overview of the said meeting on February 20, 2021".
The federal executive asked for further information.
"However, we attach great importance to the fact that there are no" wing "structures in the Lower Saxony state association and that there will not be any under the chairmanship of Jens Kestner." According to media reports, state board members and several members of the Bundestag also attended the meeting in Verden be.
AfD: the protection of the Constitution believes in further activities of the "wing"
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution was unimpressed by the self-dissolution of the "wing".
In an interview with the German Press Agency in December 2020, the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, said that the group had "formally dissolved, but the personal network continues to operate in the background".
From security circles it was said on request that it was assumed that the so-called wing "continues to operate until today".
Legal proceedings are currently underway between the AfD and the Protection of the Constitution.
The question is whether the entire AfD can be observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Also relevant is the question of whether the “wing” will continue to exist in any form under a new name and how many functionaries are active there.
In the last state election in Saxony-Anhalt *, the AfD received 20.8 percent of the vote and remains the second strongest force in the state. However, the CDU emerged from the election as the big winner under its Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff. The Union left the AfD well behind with 37.1 percent of the vote. (
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