U-Committee hears deputy election officer of the AfD

With the questioning of the former Saxon vice-election supervisor Robert Kluger, the state parliament's committee of inquiry to shorten the AfD list for the 2019 state elections continued its work on Thursday.

When asked whether there were instructions from the Ministry of the Interior for the state election committee, Kluger replied in the negative.

“There is no authority to issue instructions in elective matters.

Dresden - period. ”At the same time he stated that after the decision on the list he had received death threats. But there was no specific threat situation. "Nevertheless, you are already thinking about what to do." After all, the threats came a few weeks after the murder of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke.

On July 5, 2019, the state election committee decided to shorten the AfD state list and claimed formal deficiencies.

The list was drawn up at two different meetings with different meeting leaders.

In addition, the electoral process was changed in the middle.

The election committee therefore only allowed 18 of the 61 AfD applicants.

The AfD saw it as a political maneuver.

The Constitutional Court of Leipzig later decided that the AfD may run with 30 list candidates.

Despite winning many direct mandates, she was only able to take on 38 of the 39 mandates to which she was entitled.

A U-Committee is now supposed to clarify whether members of the government influenced the decision of the state election committee.

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According to Kluger, there were three discussions with the AfD before the deadline for submitting the lists.

This was a novelty.

As early as June 18, 2019, the party was informed of deficiencies.

To the best of his knowledge, it has never occurred in Saxony that a party submitted two lists.

The AfD was given every possible support and everything was done to allow the state list to be approved in the state election committee.

The regional election management did not propose a vote to the committee - if only to avoid suspicion of influencing it.

All relevant points were presented neutrally to the election committee.

dpa