The AfD has set itself in a dispute with the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution (BfV), at least in the first instance. The Cologne administrative court has upheld on Tuesday the application for a temporary injunction, the party, the BfV to say, to describe the AfD as a “test case” for an observation. The designation as a test case to come in to the Public a “negative effect”, said the court. This intervention in the rights of the AfD for lack of legal basis for the “unlawful and disproportionate”. As the authority has rejected a Declaration to cease and desist and to be procedure for legally holding, there is also a risk of repetition.
The request had been granted, therefore, already fast-tracked, because in this year of European elections and state elections are not forthcoming. Against the decision of the administrative court of appeal to the higher administrative court of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster inserted. The right-wing populists had submitted the application at the beginning of February, because they feel discredited.
Further action of the BfV is still unclear
the President of The BfV, Thomas Haldenwang, had announced in mid-January in Berlin, the whole party AfD will be handled in a “test case”. The Federal office wants to 13 now, the decision of the. Chamber of the administrative court to look at first. If the authority applies to the next instance, the higher administrative court of Münster, is open. The legal policy spokesman of the AfD group, Roman Reusch, announced to the daily mirror, if necessary, the party will argue to the Federal constitutional court with the protection of the Constitution.
the hope of The right-wing populists to defeat the Federal Agency was increasing recently due to an opinion of the Scientific service (WD) of the Bundestag. In the paper, given by the AfD group in order to rate the WD is the public name of the AfD as a test case by the Federal office as a violation of the equality of the parties. The AfD itself was, however, on your Website a Link to the Internet platform netzpolitik.org that had published the report by the BfV completely.
Haldenwang announced in January, it will be the first actual evidence for an against the free democratic basic order policy of the AfD-existence””. The BfV-President pointed to statements by party officials and other members, “with the guarantee of human dignity is incompatible”. This relates to “völkisch-nationalist as well as anti-Muslim and other xenophobic and anti-minority statements.”
As one example of many cited in the opinion of the Federal AfD leader Alexander Gauland with the defamatory statement, in the case of migrants, there were “almost without exception uneducated, largely tribal society-behaved and up to the work aversion of pious people”. For a monitoring of the AfD with the use of intelligence resources, for example, V-people, not submitted to the Federal office of the circumstantial evidence, however. In the case of two associations in the AfD.
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The Federal office of the youth organization “Young Alternative (JA)” and the grouping “of The wings, said” the suspected case. Both associations Haldenwang word said the same, it is sufficiently weighty reasons to suspect hardware, “points to the fact that it is an extremist efforts”. In the Central political program of the YES, the “Germany plan”, and in Statements by officials positions would find themselves “, the people would violate the warranty clearly”. Haldenwang said YES, it was directed against the principle of democracy. Also, would respect the “YES-program” rule of law basic principles, such as the monopoly of violence of the state.
In the case of the Thuringian AfD-Chef Björn Höcke-run “wings” looks at the Federal symptoms similar to the YES. And Haldenwang stressed, “the relativization of historical national socialism is like a red thread through the statements of the wings’representative”. (with AFP)