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FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki calls on Markus Söder (CSU) to make better political offers - instead of insisting on excluding the AfD from party financing.
Berlin – After a secret meeting of right-wing extremists in Potsdam became known, things are simmering in Germany.
AfD members spoke there, among other things, about the expulsion of German citizens with a migration background.
900,000 people demonstrated against the AfD last weekend.
And politicians are desperately looking for solutions against the right-wing populist party, which despite everything is still at over 20 percent in current surveys.
One idea is to cut off the money supply to the AfD.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had already said last week that he believes excluding the AfD from party financing is a possibility.
The SPD and the Greens are also open to this idea.
Kubicki sees cutting funding for the AfD as “highly problematic”
However, Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) sees things completely differently.
He has contradicted calls for state payments to be canceled to the AfD.
The FDP politician told the AFP
news agency on Monday that he considered such a step to be “highly problematic” for democratic culture
.
The competition with the AfD must rather be conducted with political ideas.
“The AfD is not currently banned - and as far as I know, there is no request from Söder's CSU to take this step,” added Kubicki.
He thought it would be “better and more democratic if Markus Söder concentrated on making such a good political and personal offer to voters that they wouldn’t even think of voting for the AfD.”
Federal Constitutional Court rules: Parties can be excluded from state funding
Excluding the AfD from party financing is actually possible according to the fundamental ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court.
The judges ruled on Tuesday (January 23) that the right-wing extremist party Die Heimat – the successor party to the NPD – can be excluded from state party funding.
The judge's ruling can now serve as a blueprint for other parties.
The Federal Constitutional Court justified its judgment by saying that The Homeland was aimed at impairing or eliminating the free, democratic basic order.
According to the law, the party is now excluded from state party funding for six years.
Kubicki sees the “foundations of our democratic coexistence” dissolved
Kubicki warned that the AfD could be fought by turning off the state's money supply.
“If we give the impression that the political competitor can decide what opportunities and opportunities for participation another party gets, then we are dissolving the foundations of our democratic coexistence,” he told
AFP
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Of course, the Federal Constitutional Court would decide whether to exclude the AfD from party financing, as was the case with the NPD successor party.
AfD regional association classifies as firmly right-wing extremist
The basis of the current judgment is an amendment to the Basic Law in 2017, according to which state funding can be withdrawn from a party even if it is not banned.
However, the prerequisite is that they or their supporters pursue anti-constitutional goals.
Politicians and experts also see the AfD as a potential threat to democracy.
Reference is made, among other things, to the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which classifies the AfD regional association there as definitely right-wing extremist.
(so with afp)