As of: January 29, 2024, 9:09 a.m
By: Peter Sieben
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At a current hour in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament, an AfD politician caused a scandal.
That wasn't the only time when things got loud in the plenary session.
Düsseldorf - The “yes” sounded so loudly that you almost thought you heard an echo: Rarely has there been as much agreement across all groups in the plenary session as there was on this Wednesday morning.
“Is anyone here claiming that the AfD is against democracy?” asked AfD member of the state parliament Markus Wagner – and received a unanimous “yes” answer.
Demos against the right-wing and AfD after secret meetings: “There are the Nazis”
Except from his own party, of course.
This was the topic of the current hour in the NRW state parliament.
At the request of all other parliamentary groups, the MPs spoke about the huge protest against right-wing extremism and the AfD that is taking place these days.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets, and large demonstrations are also planned for the next few days.
The trigger was reports about a secret meeting between neo-Nazis and AfD members at which the deportation of millions of people was discussed.
Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst found clear words about this in his speech.
NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst at a current hour on the anti-right demos.
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“Human dignity is inviolable,” Wüst began his speech.
“But we are now dealing with forces in this country that are making distinctions between disabled and non-disabled children, between people with and without a migration background.
Forces that sit in most parliaments today, including our state parliament." They were elected democratically, but that doesn't make them democrats, said Wüst - and in the direction of the AfD parliamentary group: "If leading heads of a party They are Nazis, you can call them that: There are the Nazis.”
AfD politician Markus Wagner: “We don’t want to feed Ricarda Lang”
AfD politician Markus Wagner called the reports about the secret meeting in Potsdam a “campaign” by a “left-wing activist collective”.
“I say to my foreign friends and everyone who is well integrated: Don’t let yourself be unsettled.
None of you will be driven out by the AfD,” said Wagner.
“These people want to divide us to distract from their incompetence.” People are dissatisfied with the “extremely bad government,” said Wagner.
AfD politician Markus Wagner in the NRW state parliament.
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Then there was a scandal: “We no longer want to feed Ricarda Lang,” said Wagner, whereupon there was loud opposition from the plenary session.
In the past, the AfD had often caused outrage with comments about the appearance of the Green Party co-leader.
Same this time too.
The SPD MP Elisabeth Müller-Witt said: “If Ms. Lang is insulted in the worst possible way, then we Democrats have to help her.” There was applause for this.
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SPD politician Jochen Ott: “The AfD is a great misfortune for this country”
Thorsten Schick, state parliamentary group leader of the CDU, quoted Karl Joseph Wirth in his speech.
The former Chancellor of the Weimar Republic warned against the National Socialists at the time.
“The enemy is on the right.
That was true in 1922, it is also true in 2024.
The enemy is also here,” said Schick.
Just a few days earlier, after the secret meeting in Potsdam, there had been an AfD event in Eitorf in the Rhein-Sieg district.
There, too, it was about the so-called “remigration”, i.e. the mass deportation of people with a migration background and people who think differently.
“AfD members of this parliament were there,” said Schick.
There was always laughter and heckling from the ranks of the AfD.
Even when the SPD parliamentary group leader Jochen Ott took the lectern.
“The AfD is a great misfortune for this country,” said Ott.
“Millions of people with a migration background are very afraid.
“You ask yourself whether Germany has learned nothing from its history, from Solingen, Mölln and Hanau,” said Ott, who was referring to right-wing extremist attacks and assassination attempts in recent history.
The vast majority are on the side of people who would like to get rid of right-wing extremists.
“We will do everything we can to ensure that they can live here in peace and freedom.”
Ban on the Identitarian Movement called for
Jochen Ott, SPD parliamentary group leader in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Ott told
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that he did not think it made sense to ban the AfD before the state elections in Saxony, Brandenburg and Thuringia.
“But we have to ban the Identitarian Movement in order to dry out the intellectual underground of right-wing extremists.” He also called for more support to be given to work in parties, which is also essential for a democracy.
“The SPD once had a million members.
Now all parties together have so many.” There needs to be more respect for people who do political work.
“Mayors are being threatened, that’s an absurdity.
It’s not just firefighters who rightly deserve respect,” said Ott.