2023-11-08 18:46:00
What concerns the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany does not scare AfD voters.
Anyone who clicks on “Current News” on the website of the AfD regional association of Saxony-Anhalt on Wednesday will find congratulations at the top for Hannes Loth from Raguhn-Jesnitz, a town with 9,000 inhabitants north of Bitterfeld. “Hannes is now,” it says, “the first AfD mayor in Germany.” The entry is from July 3rd.
It does not say that on November 7th, the day before, the regional association was classified as a “certified right-wing extremist effort” by the responsible Office for the Protection of the Constitution at the State Ministry of the Interior. The AfD Saxony-Anhalt has thus reached the highest constitutional protection category; It has long been a test case and a suspected case since January 2021.
Department head Jochen Hollmann calls the result “clear,” reports Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) on Wednesday. The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt “not only continues to represent anti-constitutional positions”, it has also “radicalized” further since the corona pandemic.
Both can be proven by a “variety” of statements from “numerous officials and elected officials”. “Particularly relevant” are those that are directed against human dignity guaranteed by the constitution – such as “invaders”, “intrusives” or “culturally foreign supply migrants” for immigrants. Anti-Muslim, racist and anti-Semitic statements demonstrated that the AfD was striving for an “ethnoculturally homogeneous nation”. Another goal is the abolition of parliamentary democracy.
Oliver Kirchner, AfD co-parliamentary leader in the Magdeburg state parliament, reacted coolly to the classification. “I’m not interested in what the Office for the Protection of the Constitution claims.” He considers the decision to be politically motivated. The Ministry of the Interior in Saxony-Anhalt is led by the CDU; According to a current voter survey, the AfD has just passed them. In fact, on October 24th, the INSA institute measured the AfD as the strongest party with 33 percent and the CDU with 32 percent; the difference is within the error tolerance.
In neighboring Thuringia, the AfD, led there by ethnic-nationalist party frontman Björn Höcke, has been classified as proven right-wing extremist since 2021. There and in the two young states of Saxony and Brandenburg there will be elections next year; The AfD is currently clearly ahead in surveys everywhere.
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