The AfD’s hopes up on a legal defeat of the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution (BfV). The party had requested at the beginning of February, when the Cologne administrative court, the news service to say, to Express his classification of the AfD as a “test case” to the public. The decision of the judge is still out, but the right-wing populists see themselves through a report commissioned by the Scientific service (WD) of the Bundestag strengthened.
For the public name of a political party as a “test case” containing the Federal constitutional law on the protection of “no legal authority”, – stated in the recently completed, ten-page paper. From the point of view of the WD, the term “test case” represents an intervention in the equal opportunities of the parties.
BfV-President Thomas Haldenwang had announced in January, the whole party AfD will be processed as a test case “”. The Federal first actual evidence “against the democratic basic order policy of the AfD-existence”. The assessment is based on an opinion of where the BfV own findings to the AfD and the country authorities for the Constitution, analyzed the protection. The Federal office decided in addition, the AfD Junior troupe “Young Alternative”, and in the party’s active Association “wing” as a “suspected case” and thus harder to classify.
For the Scientific services of the Bundestag, it would be “less stigmatising”, the BfV would have the whole party AfD as “not a suspected case” means. The right-wing populists feel satisfaction. The opinion of the WD “confirms our view that the public designation of the AfD was as a test case unlawful,” said the General counsel of the parliamentary group, Stephan Brandner, on Thursday the daily mirror. The reasoning of the WD is similar to that of the party in the application for a temporary injunction to the administrative court in Cologne.
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affects The behaviour of the AfD, however, contradictory. On the party’s Website, a Link to the Internet platform netzpolitik.org published by the expert opinion of the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution to the AfD completely. The party itself refers to the paper in which the classification as a test case to several hundred pages is explained, not bothering Brandner. The report “discredited themselves,” said AfD Deputy, “the can read everyone”.
