The AfD bosses of Thuringia and Saxony, Björn Höcke and Jörg Urban, are involved in the litigation with the protection of the constitution with the classification and observation of their party.
Specifically, the report refers to the handling of the protection of the constitution with AfD MPs in Thuringia and Saxony. Höcke also sees one in it too Contribution for the entire party In the legal dispute with domestic intelligence.
The paper of the constitutional lawyer Michael Elicker concludes that “all measures affected by the exercise of the mandate are” prohibited “. It is argued with the so -called Indy for MPs In the state constitutions of Thuringia and Saxony.
I assume that the federal level will integrate this expert opinion into its atmosphere.
Björn Höcke
There it says: MPs should never be due to voting or statements in the exercise of their mandate pursued in court or business Or otherwise held responsible outside the state parliament. This does not apply to defamation insults. According to the AfD report, the regulation in conjunction with earlier case law of the Federal Constitutional Court also excludes an observation by the protection of the constitution.
AfD state chiefs and federal executives advise in the evening
At the presentation of the paper in Berlin, Höcke said: “I assume that the federal level will integrate this expert opinion into its case -by -case.” According to his and urban information, the AfD federal executive board and the AfD state chiefs in the evening in Berlin The further procedure in the legal dispute with the Federal Constitution Protection.
This had the Bundes-AfD at the beginning of the month classified as secured right -wing extremist. On the other hand, she defends herself legally. Until a decision by the responsible administrative court of Cologne via a corresponding urgent application by the party, the domestic secret service has put the new classification back on hold.
The AfD will only continue to led as a so -called suspected case and continues to observe accordingly. In Saxony, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, the constitutional protection authorities have classified the respective AfD state associations as secure right-wing extremist.
Höcke and Urban criticize the protection of the constitution for stigmatization
Höcke spoke of “Sniffing of the constitutional protection” for opposition parties, “which are completely peaceful”. Jörg Urban complained about the impairment of free opinion formation and stigmatization. He emphasized that the approval values for the party would suffer from the protection of the constitution. Höcke then added to the Thuringian Protection Protection, “I have been suffering from Stephan Kramer for years”. He accused Kramer “permanent interventions” into election campaigns.
The Thuringian Constitutional Protection had already classified right-wing extremist in 2021 in 2021. There was no complaint against this decision. Kramer has been head of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution (dpa, EPD) since 2015
Source: Tagesspiegel
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