After their Christmas party in the Brandenburg state parliament hall, the AfD allegedly left behind broken glass and leftovers. Party members flouted fire safety regulations at the event by using fuel paste containers to keep food warm.
The Brandenburg AfD parliamentary group caused trouble in the state parliament with a Christmas party. “The hall was found in an unacceptable condition on Thursday after the celebration,” said a spokesman for the state parliament in Potsdam. “The state parliament administration is now examining whether and what damage has occurred and what it costs to repair it. The aim is that the taxpayers do not have to pay for it.” The AfD faction rejected criticism.
The AfD faction celebrated in a room provided by the state parliament administration. For example, it was criticized that she used containers with fuel paste to keep food warm. According to the state parliament’s fire protection regulations, fire and open flames are prohibited in the building; exceptions must be agreed upon. There was no exemption for the Christmas party. In a photo marked “Bild” and “B.Z.” showed, glass splinters and leftovers of food could also be seen. The AfD faction defended itself.
“This committee room shows no signs of use or other traces,” said Parliamentary Secretary Dennis Hohloch on Friday in the plenary session. We cleaned and tidied it up just as well and it looks the same as it did before the party.” SPD MP Jörg Vogelsänger said with a smile: “The main thing is that the goose is warm.”
The AfD is also under pressure in Thuringia. According to the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, positions against human dignity and the principles of democracy and the rule of law dominate the political ideology of the AfD state association in the Free State. This emerges from the new Thuringian constitutional protection report for the year 2021, which was published. In it, the state association of the AfD is listed under the section “Right-wing extremist parties”.
In March 2021, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified the Thuringian AfD with its controversial state party and parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke as a secured right-wing extremist effort. “The extremist program of the national association was not corrected,” says the report.
According to this, the Islamophobia of the state spokesman Björn Höcke and other AfD representatives “feeds not in principle from cultural or religious criticism, but from racist positions”. In principle, racism is against the constitution, even if it comes in the “rhetorical dress of (unchangeable) cultural differences”.
