The SPD puts pressure on AfD ban. At the weekend, the party congress decided that a prohibition procedure will be prepared. The party leader Lars Klingbeil said that it was a democratic task to use the instruments that the constitution provides.
The unity of the SPD was very large. But now a former chairman is rooting. In an email to his party that is available to the Tagesspiegel, Sigmar Gabriel comments in drastic words.
He raises the question: “Instead of raising an attempt at an AfD ban on the political program, the SPD prefers to ask itself why hundreds of thousands of former SPD voters have switched to the AfD?”
Already the report of the protection of the constitution on the topic is so thin that it is not even enough to characterize the AfD throughout as an constitutional, writes Gabriel. And further. “Then it won’t be enough for the constitutional impact on the ban. An SPD interior minister should actually know something like this.”
The latter sentence means Georg Maier, Thuringia’s Minister of the Interior and head of state of the SPD. Because Gabriel’s mail is the answer to a SPD newsletter on the topic of AfD ban, drawn by Maier.
Instead of such replacement acts, it would be better to finally work on the political issues that the German employees drift from the SPD to the AfD.
Sigmar Gabriel In an email to his party
Gabriel has his own proposal where his party could start-at Thuringia’s AfD boss Björn Höcke, who is a teacher in Hesse. “If the SPD wants to formally deal with the AfD, it should question Mr. Höcke’s civil servant status,” writes Gabriel. “Anyone who violates the freedom-democratic basic order can be removed from the public service and thus loses at least part of his pension claims. What does the Thuringian state government do to the Hessian state government in order to initiate a corresponding procedure against the Hessian state official Höcke?”
Then Gabriel once again becomes very clear: “If the SPD does not even try this, it should not take the mouth of the AfD ban too full. Instead of such replacement actions, it would be better to finally work on the political issues that German employees drift from the SPD to the AfD. But this includes more courage, commitment, wealth of ideas and hard work than such dummy ban on prohibitions.”
After all, the final formula is friendly. “Best regards,” Gabriel draws.
Source: Tagesspiegel
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