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Following requests from the AfD to postpone the proceedings and bias against individual judges, the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court rejected another request to reject the entire Senate on Tuesday.
Münster - The presiding judge Gerald Buck accused the AfD of abusing the law in its justification.
The party did not present any new arguments.
The request was made across the board and obviously without any basis.
Shortly afterwards, the party filed a motion to exclude the public because it wanted to quote from an official document that cannot be published.
The Senate did not agree to this.
However, spectators and press representatives had to leave the OVG while the issue was being discussed.
The proceedings concern the classification of the AfD by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
The 5th Senate should clarify whether the ruling from the lower instance at the Cologne Administrative Court stands.
The Federal Office (BfV), based in Cologne, had classified the party and the youth organization Junge Alternative (JA) as suspected right-wing extremist cases.
dpa