Right -wing extremism
AfD bosses on the protection of the constitution: Will “set us into defect” legally “
The AfD classifies the protection of the constitution as “secured right -wing extremist struts”. The party leadership doesn’t like that at all. She threatens legal steps.
The AfD has announced legal steps against the constitutional protection classification as “secured right-wing extremist struts”. The party will continue to defend itself legally against these defamed defamation against these democracy, “said chairman Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla on Friday.
The decision of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is “a severe blow to the German democracy”. The party leader pointed out that the previous classification was also the subject of ongoing legal disputes as a suspicion.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been entering the AfD since Friday as “secured right -wing extremist endeavor”. The reason is the “human dignity, extremist characteristics of the entire party,” said the Federal Office in Cologne. So far, the AfD had only been classified as a suspicion. Now the protection of the constitution goes one step further.
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With a view to the swearing -in of the new Federal Cabinet planned for Tuesday, Weidel and Chrupalla complained that the AfD is “publicly discredited and criminalized as an opposition party shortly before the change of government”. “The associated, targeted interference with the democratic will formation process is therefore recognizably politically motivated.” The party leader initially left open how exactly the legal steps could look.
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The AfD is one for our democracy and our rule of law as a whole. From German history we know how terrible the circumstances can develop when right -wing extremists, nationalists and democracy beings attack parliamentary democracy and come into political responsibility. “
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The deputy AfD chairman Stephan Brandner also commented: “In terms of content, this decision of the instructions-based constitutional protection is complete nonsense, has nothing to do with law and law and is a purely political in the struggle of the cartel parties against the AfD.” However, it was expected to be expected as a “unfair combat measure against the only opposition power”.
Representatives of the democratic parties reacted consistently positively to the assessment of the protection of the constitution on Friday. Many are now calling for a consistent ban on the AfD.
According to surveys, the AfD is currently the second strongest force in Germany with 23 percent. This emerges from the latest ZDF polite barometer. Only the CDU and CSU are more intensified and are 27 percent with a survey value.
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