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The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is reportedly planning to reclassify the AfD as a whole.
CDU politician Marco Wanderwitz welcomes this.
Berlin – Reports about a possible new report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on the partly right-wing extremist AfD did not surprise the former Federal Government Commissioner for the East, Marco Wanderwitz (CDU).
From co-leader Tino Chrupalla to the EU's top candidate Maximilian Krah and the Thuringian state leader Björn Höcke to "thousands of AfD members in their anti-constitutional statements", the AfD is "a right-wing radical party in its head and limbs," according to the Saxon CDU -Members of the Bundestag at the request of
fr.de from IPPEN.MEDIA.
According to Wanderwitz, AfD Saxony is “quite rightly” classified as right-wing extremist – “There are no more moderate voices”
So far, the state associations of the AfD in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt have been classified as “certainly right-wing extremist” by the respective constitutional protection offices.
Based on his “Saxon reality of life”, Wanderwitz sees this classification as “completely right”.
“There are no longer any moderate voices within the AfD here,” emphasized Wanderwitz.
Since the beginning of February, the AfD's youth organization, Junge Alternative (JA), has also been allowed to be treated in this way.
The Federal AfD is still arguing with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution before the Higher Administrative Court in Münster over the classification of the entire party as a “suspected case”.
Negotiations will take place on March 12th.
After that it could happen quickly.
Marco Wanderwitz: In his view, a ban on the AfD would provide a breathing space.
© Kay Nietfeld/dpa
According to research by the
Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ),
the authority has been preparing a new report since “March 2023 at the latest”.
Accordingly, this should have already been completed, but the intelligence service still wanted to be able to react to anything unexpected in the pending Münster judgment.
Until then, the details of a new report will remain a closely guarded secret.
According to the SZ
, the intelligence services observed
that “the solidarity-patriotic camp” around Höcke was “increasingly gaining influence”.
Höcke wrote in his book about “parts of the people” that will be “losed”.
Referring to migrants, he wrote of “well-tempered cruelty” that would be used against them.
Has a disgusting comparison for the anti-AfD demonstrators: Björn Höcke has to think about the Nazi era.
© IMAGO
Wanderwitz sees the AfD being upgraded to a “secure right-wing extremist effort”.
Also because of this statement by the former history teacher Höcke, Wanderwitz sees an upgrade of the federal AfD on the horizon “in the medium term”.
He already believes that the initiation of party ban proceedings is “necessary,” Wanderwitz
told
fr.de.
Wanderwitz has been recruiting supporters in the Bundestag for months.
This is controversial among members of the democratic parties.
After publications by the investigative portal
Correctiv
on the ideas discussed at a conspiratorial meeting between high-ranking AfD members and other right-wing extremists to expel millions of people from Germany, this demand became louder.
Democratic party leaders largely remained skeptical.
But with a possible reclassification of the AfD, this debate could take a new direction.
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The AfD's federal treasurer and member of the Saxon state parliament, Carsten Hütter, alleged that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution would pass on its "secret information exclusively to state radio," according to a press release on Monday.
But the SZ
works
privately and the report has nothing to do with public broadcasting, which AfD representatives have been trying to disavow for years.
While his party in Münster is suing in the second instance against the classification as a right-wing extremist "suspected case", Hütter claimed that at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution "the verdict was already fixed before the evidence was taken".
The authority submitted a more than 1,000-page report for the classification negotiated in March.
Bavarian constitutional judge: Reclassification of the AfD could mean job losses for civil servants with party membership
Nervousness in the AfD is nothing new when it comes to reports from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Until 2021, there was an internal party working group that was supposed to look for starting points for allegations of extremism in order to avoid more detailed observation.
The extremists in the party were not enthusiastic and the group was dissolved.
According to the lawyer and Bavarian constitutional judge Chan-jo Jun on
In this case, “individual checks for compliance with the constitution could take place”.
Civil servants could then be removed from service “if they do not clearly support the free-democratic basic order”.
(KiBec)