The Brandenburger protection of the Constitution constitutes the entire AfD in the country under observation. This had happened after a prolonged examination, informed the interior Ministry on Monday in Potsdam, the German press Agency. The control Commission of the land Parliament was informed. Previously, ntv and RTL, as well as the “daily mirror” reported about it. With the decision of far-reaching intelligence agents, the protection of the Constitution in Brandenburg, to observe the organs and function of the AfD there. The interior Ministry wants to give in the course of the day for more information.
Earlier, the previous AfD country Director Andreas Kalbitz had been excluded by a majority decision of the Federal Executive of the party. However, the decision party is internally controversial, and in the Brandenburg Association of powerful forces are behind Kalbitz – even the rules of procedure of the parliamentary group was changed, so that he could remain after the expulsion of the member. Kalbitz, is one of the leaders of the radical Right in the party to Björn Höcke, which were once closed in the now defunct “wings” together. Kalbitz is set from the point of view of the constitutional protection of a right-wing extremist.
“A severe engagement”
the head of The Brandenburg Constitution protection, Jörg Müller, had said in mid-may in the RBB: “If these recognizable “available lie change” continues and shows, then this is a question more and more to impose will.” He stressed, however, the observation of a party of is bound, in a democracy, to exact the rule of law conditions and a severe engagement.
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The AfD Federal Executive had explained to the membership of Kalbitz in may with a slim majority of seven to five votes, with one abstention, null and void. As the reason for the decision, he stated that Kalbitz not have given in to joining the party in 2013, a former membership in the now-banned right-wing “homeland-faithful German youth” (HDJ), and the Republicans between the end of 1993 and beginning of 1994. This is not emphasized, however, that he was a HDJ member. Kalbitz, the Federal court of arbitration of the party, and before a civil court against the decision.
in addition to Thuringia, the country of the Chairman Höcke Kalbitz is considered to be the main representative of the right-national flow in the party. The right of national “wings”, which is classified by the protection of the Constitution as the extreme right, had dissolved according to its own information at the end of April itself.
