Exclude AfD MPs? FC Bundestag wants to change statutes

Together with MPs of the AfD on the soccer field, fighting for team success? For many members of the parliamentary football team who regularly compete against other leisure teams, this no longer fits together. And this Wednesday at the general meeting of FC Bundestag there is a change in the statutes on the agenda: the association should be able to exclude AfD MPs.

In the future, the commitment of all members of the association for the “freedom-democratic basic order” will be required as the basis for the association’s work. So it is in the draft of the amendment to the statutes that the star is present. In addition, the association is opposing “racist, constitutional and xenophobic efforts”, it says.

Specifically, it is planned that the board will decide with a simple majority about the admission or rejection of members. A rejection must be “particularly followed if the applicant is a member of an association, an organization or a party that pursues anti -constitutional goals,” says the draft for the new statute. A member should also be excluded if the association is a shame, “in particular by the expression of extremist or anti -constitutional attitudes or attitude inside and outside the club”.

Behind the proposed amendment to the statutes at FC Bundestag is the greater question, which is currently evident in many places in parliament: How to deal with the representatives of the AfD? The party already feels unfairly treated in the Bundestag anyway, for example because its representatives are not elected as chairwoman of committees, or – as has so far been, no larger space is made available to them.

However, the attempt to actually exclude AfD MP with the new statutes from the team is a legally delicate undertaking. At the moment, the party is still complaining against its classification by the constitutional protection as secure right -wing extremist endeavor.

Just a few months ago, FC Bundestag had to take a legal defeat on this question: Last year, the association had decided that membership in the association was incompatible with a membership in the AfD. In contrast, several AfD MPs complained and received law from the Berlin Regional Court. Among other things, the judge justified her judgment that the incompatibility decision violated the applicable statutes of the association. This should now be corrected.

For the Green MP Kassem Taher Saleh, who plays in midfield for the FC Bundestag, this is overdue. On the other hand, he is against excluding AfD voters, he told that star. “But this is about professionals who, with their words and deeds, are jointly responsible for the fact that Nazis appear more open again in this country – and that queer people and migrants are increasingly under pressure.” On the other hand, you stand: “On the square and in parliament”.