The AfD party and parliamentary faction leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla have rejected a report by Bayerischer Rundfunk about right-wing extremist AfD employees in the Bundestag. It is about “further discrediting the AfD.”
“This is so ridiculous and far-fetched,” Weidel said in a press statement in Berlin on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of the Bundestag faction.
Chrupalla called the investigation into the employees defamatory. The employees have been internally checked by the parliamentary group “and everyone who works here and has a house pass has also been checked by the Bundestag. These are innocent civilians against whom nothing exists.”
“What am I to you?”
Chrupalla pointed out that he is also a member of a regional AfD association in Saxony, which the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified as definitively right-wing extremist. “What am I to you?” he asked the journalists present.
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) published previous research. According to the report, more than 100 people from organizations classified as right-wing extremist by Germany’s constitutional protection agencies work for the AfD parliamentary group and AfD MPs. Such organizations include the AfD youth organization Junge Alternative (JA).
Consequences demanded
The BR bases its investigation on ‘internal name lists’ of the Bundestag and employee lists of the AfD faction, which it has been able to inspect. Politicians from other parties demanded consequences.
Weidel said that the whole matter was “posted” on the day of the court hearing between the AfD and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Münster – which concerns issues of intelligence surveillance of the party. She spoke of a media campaign.
Regarding the classification as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Weidel said: “I am not at all interested in the definition of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.” It is a subjective assessment. The AfD repeatedly criticizes the constitutional protection authorities for not being independent and is taking legal action against the domestic secret service that observes them.
Source: Krone
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