As of: January 31, 2024, 9:00 a.m
By: Sebastian Tauchnitz
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Rüdiger Imgart taking part in a demonstration on August 29, 2020 in Berlin.
As the demo continued, right-wing extremists and Reich citizens tried to storm the Bundestag (we reported).
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Rüdiger Imgart, AfD city councilor and district council member from Weilheim, will again work as an honorary judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court in this legislative period.
In the state parliament, the list of honorary judges was approved with a majority of CSU and Free Voters.
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- A debate had previously broken out about whether the election procedure should be changed.
Various parties had demanded that votes should no longer be voted on the entire list, but rather on each individual applicant.
This was intended to prevent the two AfD candidates from being able to serve as honorary judges at the Constitutional Court again.
In the end, pragmatic reasons prevailed for the CSU and Free Voters.
It was unclear what specific impact it would have if the AfD candidates were not elected.
In concrete terms, this means that Rüdiger Imgart, a lawyer from Weilheim, will work at the administrative court for five more years.
As a volunteer judge, he participates in the oral hearing and the decision-making to the same extent and with the same voting rights as the professional judges and bears the same responsibility for the decision as they do.
AfD in Bavaria is being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution
In view of the fact that parts of the AfD are now considered “secure right-wing extremists” and the party in Bavaria is now being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, parts of the state parliament members had denied Imgart a fundamental suitability for the judgeship.
In fact, the AfD politician had repeatedly emphasized in the past that he was a supporter of Björn Höcke.
Höcke is a spokesman for the state association of the AfD Thuringia, which is classified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as “certainly right-wing extremist,” and the AfD’s top candidate in the state election.
A petition is currently underway to call on the federal government to file an application for forfeiture of fundamental rights against Höcke in accordance with Article 18 of the Basic Law.
If she were successful, Höcke would be stripped of her right to vote, her eligibility and her ability to hold public office.
So far more than 1.6 million people have signed the petition.
AfD district association regularly generates negative headlines
Imgart is also a member of the AfD district association Weilheim-Schongau, which has repeatedly made negative headlines in recent weeks.
First it became known that Bundestag member Gerrit Huy, who has her constituency office in Weilheim, had taken part in the secret meeting of right-wing extremists at which the “remigration”, i.e. the expulsion of millions of people from Germany, was planned.
After the research network “Correctiv” reported on the meeting, there were mass protests against the AfD and right-wing extremism in Germany.
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The Bavarian Constitution of 1946 endowed the Constitutional Court, of which Rüdiger Imgart has now been a member for another five years, with comprehensive responsibilities in order to guarantee the fundamental rights of the individual and the constitutional functioning of state organs.