“Wolf in sheep’s clothing”: German parties warn against the AfD in the Bundestag due to disruptive behavior: Judge threatens Trump with expulsion

Politicians from all factions, with the exception of the right-wing populist AfD, have warned in the German Bundestag of the party’s danger.

She is a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’, SPD leader Lars Klingbeil told AfD leader Alice Weidel in a topical hour on Thursday. The leader of the Green Party, Britta Hasselmann, spoke of “enemies of democracy”. The reason for the current hour was a meeting of politicians and actors of the so-called New Right that became known last week.

Several AfD politicians and individual members of the CDU and the ultra-conservative Values ​​Union took part in the meeting on November 25 in a villa in Potsdam, which was reported by the media company Correctiv.

The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he was talking about “remigration” there. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin are forced to leave the country – even under duress. The parliamentary director of the AfD faction, Bernd Baumann, called the meeting a small, private “debate club.”

The parliamentary director of the CDU/CSU faction, Thorsten Frei, said that the AfD is currently ranked second in national voter surveys and is also the result of poor government work by the coalition of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP. He accused the “traffic light coalition” of “governing while bypassing the needs of the people.”

The FDP’s deputy faction leader, Konstantin Kuhle, countered: “It’s no longer about the coalition.” What matters more is whether all democratic forces are prepared to work together to combat the current threats to democracy. He appealed to the Union’s politicians: “We are all in the same boat as the democratic parties.”

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified the AfD as a suspected right-wing extremist case, which also allows the use of intelligence sources such as surveillance. The party is trying to defend itself against this by legal means. A ruling on this issue is expected from the High Administrative Court in Münster at the end of February.

“It is no coincidence that a well-known right-wing extremist was also allowed to present his ideas to representatives of the AfD and the Union of Values ​​in Potsdam,” said Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD). It is right and necessary that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution keeps an eye on the AfD. The party is only concerned with spreading “anger and agitation”. (sda/dpa)