Bundestag
Merz is back in debate about AfD ban proceedings
How to deal with the AfD? In any case, the expected new Chancellor currently does not want to say anything about a possible ban procedure. In one point, however, Friedrich Merz makes a clear position.
CDU boss Friedrich Merz does not currently want to comment on the question of a possible AfD ban. However, he clearly rejects a election of AfD MPs to committee chairman in the Bundestag after the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified the party as right-wing extremist: “At the latest since last weekend it has also been inconceivable for me that MPs in the German Bundestag vote for AfD MPs,” said the designated Kanzler after a Union faction in Berlin.
Merz said that the next federal government’s task will be to carefully evaluate the Federal Office of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Merz. The evaluation and the political evaluation is exclusively the matter of the federal government and here of the Federal Minister of the Interior. “And before such an evaluation is not made, I personally do not want to give any recommendations for further conclusions on the part of the government.”
Spahn: Union and SPD draw conclusions together
The protection of the constitution had announced on Friday that it regarded the AfD as secure right -wing extremist. The AfD prepares legal steps against the classification. The step of the constitutional protectors has replaced the discussion that has been held for years about an AfD ban.
The newly elected Union faction leader Jens Spahn (CDU) said that the report of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution was very seriously. “We agreed in the Union, but also in the coalition that we will carefully evaluate it that we will then draw conclusions together.” This is followed by the Union and SPD that there will be no recommendation to vote for AfD politicians as committee chair. In all of these questions, the Union will coordinate closely with the SPD.
Before his nomination to the parliamentary group leader, Spahn had spoken in favor of dealing with the AfD in parliamentary operations as well as other opposition parties. Now, when asked, he said that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had “changed the situation again”.
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Source: Stern
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