According to a report published on Tuesday by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), the right-wing populist party AfD employs more than 100 people in the Bundestag who are classified by German constitutional protection officials as belonging to the right-wing extremist spectrum.
Among them are activists of the Identitarian Movement, ideological thinkers of the ‘New Right’ and several neo-Nazis. The BR bases itself on “internal name lists” of the Bundestag and on employee lists of the AfD faction in the Bundestag. The party strongly rejected the report and spoke of a campaign against it.
According to BR, these are people who are named in reports to protect the constitution, who hold leadership positions in observed organizations classified as right-wing or who have appeared as speakers at the Institute for State Policy (IfS), which is classified as right-wing -extremist is classified. A representative of the association “One Percent”, which the German domestic secret service considers part of the new right, is also among them.
Many have been recruited from AfD youth organizations
According to BR research, the majority of the more than a hundred employees in question come from the AfD youth organization Junge Alternative (JA), which is classified as right-wing extremist, or from the regional AfD associations in the German states of Saxony. Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
Source: Krone
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