A good three weeks before the election, Bavaria’s AfD has to cope with a serious defeat. Once again, a court found that the right-wing populists are the focus of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for good reasons.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bavaria is allowed to monitor the AfD as an entire party in the Free State and inform the public about it. The Bavarian Administrative Court in Munich decided this in an urgent procedure, as the court announced on Friday.
As early as June 2022, the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) decided to monitor the AfD as a whole party both from public sources and with intelligence resources. The authority justified this by saying that it wanted to find out what influence extremist tendencies had within the entire party and in which direction the party was developing.
AfD complaint dismissed
As a result, the AfD regional association defended itself against this with a lawsuit and demanded that both monitoring and informing the public about it be stopped. The regional association justified this with the principle of equal opportunities for the parties and filed an urgent application because the observation affected it with maximum severity and further observation until the legal proceedings had been concluded was unreasonable.
After the Munich Administrative Court rejected the urgent application in the first instance on April 17, 2023, the AfD regional association filed a complaint with the Administrative Court. But in this instance too, the judges rejected the AfD’s application. “The LfV rightly assumes that there are actual indications of anti-constitutional efforts by the AfD as a party as a whole. This results in particular from the influence of party members on the party as a whole who belonged to the now dissolved collective movement ‘Der Wing’, as well as from what has become known.” “Subversive fantasies” of members of the Bavarian regional association,” the court said.
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The court’s statement went on to say: “Numerous supporters of the former ‘wing’, as well as high-ranking representatives of the AfD’s youth organization ‘Junge Alternative’, represent a ethnic concept that is incompatible with the Basic Law.” There is also numerous evidence that the political concept of the entire party violates the human dignity of people of Islamic faith.
Note: This article has been updated
Source: Stern
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