AfD MP: Bundestag refuses to work in the house ID cards

The Bundestag has refused to issue several employees of AfD MPs about suspicion of anti-constitutional activities. The applications from three employees to issue a house ID were rejected, a spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group told the AFP news agency on Wednesday. Another employee of an AfD MP, the access authorization that has already been granted to the IT systems of the Bundestag, including the intranet, had been withdrawn.

The Bundestag justified the decisions by the fact that all those affected are considered conceivable that entering the Bundestag “could be misused for anti -constitutional purposes”, as it said in a message. “The basis of this decision was security -critical findings as part of the necessary reliability check.” With an exhibition of the ID cards, “a risk of functional and work ability, security, integrity or trustworthiness of the German Bundestag would have been associated”.

“The large number and the severity of security -critical knowledge to the relevant members of the MP made their applications imperative,” said Parliament President Julia Klöckner (CDU). There should be “no reasonable doubts about their personal reliability in everyone who” have access to the buildings and IT systems of the Bundestag “. The Bundestag is “an open parliament – at the same time it is the space of our democracy that we have to protect”.

The AfD parliamentary group spokesman did not want to comment on the content of the employees. “Since the attitude of personal employees alone is the responsibility of the respective MPs, the parliamentary group cannot provide any more details about these cases,” he said. However, the parliamentary group will “support the MPs as part of their possibilities in clarifying the facts”.