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The AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla in the ARD summer interview
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What should happen to those Afghans who would have supported the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan, the moderator wants to know: Can they come to Germany and apply for asylum here?
After all, they would have to fear for their lives if the Taliban took over power in the country.
Kunduz - where the Bundeswehr was active for a long time - was taken by the Islamists that Sunday.
But Chrupalla does not want to admit that to the persecuted in the conversation he is having on the sidelines of the ARD summer interview: These people could of course all apply for asylum, he says - "but before the entry takes place."
Chrupalla is opposing the law.
In Article 16a of the Basic Law it says.
"Politically persecuted people enjoy the right to asylum." Restrictions would only apply to people who are coming from another country in the European Union or a safe third country - which does not include Afghanistan.
But even when asked, Chrupalla does not want to deviate from his position.
Moderator Matthias Deiß wants to know whether this also applies if there is a life-threatening situation - as is the case for the helpers of the German Armed Forces in Afghanistan.
Chrupalla's answer: "Can anyone come with a life-threatening situation?" Asylum applications should be made abroad, that is also the premise of his party.
Against party exclusion proceedings for Helferich
In addition, Chrupalla rejected a party expulsion procedure against the NRW state vice-president Matthias Helferich, who was criticized for chat messages related to the Nazi regime. He referred to a decision of the federal executive board last Monday, according to which Helferich would be relieved of his office as deputy state chairman and suspended from office. This was decided unanimously with the vote of co-party leader Jörg Meuthen, so Chrupalla.
In 2017, Helferich described himself as "the friendly face of NS" in a non-public Facebook chat, as a screenshot published by WDR shows.
The AfD politician from Dortmund also mentioned contacts in the city's neo-Nazi scene in the chat.
He only looks after his bourgeois image.
Helferich is the AfD's Bundestag candidate with a good chance of entering parliament.
sol / dpa