The campaign was started more than two months ago. After the Potsdam meeting, the collection of supporters’ names gained considerable momentum.
Well over 1.6 million people are demanding that Thuringia’s AfD leader Björn Höcke be deprived of some of his basic rights. By Tuesday afternoon, around 1,666,000 people had spoken out in favor of the project on the platform of the campaign network Campact.
This Thursday, the list of signatories is to be handed over to the Green Party leader Britta Haßelmann in front of the Bundestag. Höcke is the party and parliamentary group leader of the Thuringian AfD, which is classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
The aim of the campaign is for the Federal Constitutional Court to deprive him of various basic rights such as the right to vote and stand for election. However, a corresponding application can only be made by the Bundestag, the federal government or a state government. The possibility of withdrawing fundamental rights is regulated in Article 18 of the Basic Law. According to this, basic rights can be forfeited if rights such as freedom of expression are “abused to fight against the free democratic basic order”.
The collection of supporters’ names was started over two months ago, but gained considerable momentum after the Potsdam meeting of radical right-wing activists and extremists with AfD officials became known. According to participants, the meeting was about the concept of so-called remigration.
Thuringian AfD parliamentary group calls for “start remigration”
In a current hour, the Thuringian AfD parliamentary group wants to talk in the state parliament about a controversial concept for deporting people from Germany. She applied for the current hour under the title “Start remigration from Thuringia instead of demonizing it,” as the parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group, Torben Braga, said when asked.
When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.
In the justification for the current hour, the AfD parliamentary group writes: “While the public debate slides into a hysterical reinterpretation of the term, the need for effective remigration measures in Thuringia is becoming clearer every week.” According to Braga, AfD MP Stefan Möller is scheduled to speak. Along with Björn Höcke, Möller is also co-chairman of the Thuringian AfD regional association.
Source: Stern
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