AfD's populist-right organization is simply a second political force in Germany and forms the largest opposition club in the Bundestag. However, this organization is under the scrutiny of the Constitution Protection Office, or counterintelligence. In the Rhineland-Palatinate region at the western end of Germany it is listed on the list of extremist organizations.
End of career in offices
This will have consequences for the members of the group: the Land authorities want to deprive them of their career opportunities in civilian service.
In Mainz, Land Minister Michael Ebling reported, the rules for the recruitment of civilian servants in Rhineland-Palatinate will be tightened.
– Faithfulness of the Constitution is not a wish, a advice or a wordless declaration. It's the constant work of all civilian servant in this country. Anyone who undertakes to service the state must be loyal to the Constitution, without any but – the Minister stressed.
Soon it will be essential to accept a written instruction of faithfulness to the Constitution during recruitment to civilian service. Candidates will gotta declare that they do not belong to or belong to an extremist organization in the past 5 years.
"Radicalization progresses"
As Michael Ebling explained, anyone who refuses to make the required declaration and will not be able to dispel doubts as to whether he is loyal to the Constitution will not be employed in the civilian service. specified doubts already be if a individual is simply a associate of an organization suspected of being extremist.
Michael Ebling late said, presenting a counterintelligence study that AfD no longer has a average wing and that the radicalization of the organization is progressing. According to the minister, even before the counterintelligence classified the organization as right-wing extremist, the MMA in Rhineland-Palatinate began to tighten the legal bases in order to be able to consistently counter the appointment of constitutional enemies.
AfD: Attack on Democratic Order
The fresh regulation powerfully criticized AfD herself and accused the head of the MMA of utilizing unconstitutional methods.
– As he (minister) and the SPD know that there is no basis for the procedure of delegalising the AfD, they hotel to anti-democratic methods and endanger AfD members by banning their profession," said Sebastian Muenzenmaier, MP of AfD to the Bundestag and vice-president of the organization in the region. In his opinion, alternatively of circumstantial charges, each associate of the AfD is placed under a bar.
– This is simply a declaration of political bankruptcy and an attack on the free basic democratic order," Muenzenmaier said.
– Ebling's decree tramples constitutionally guaranteed freedom of political parties.
Possible consequences for current employees
For current civilian servants membership of an organisation considered to be extremistic may constitute a disciplinary offence in accordance with. However, it will be decisive to examine each individual case. In the event of proven deficiency of loyalty to the Constitution, expulsion from civilian service will be threatened.
In early May, the German national Constitution Protection Office qualified the full AfD as right-wing-extremist. However, the implementation of this decision was suspended due to the fact that AfD appealed against her to court. However, this led to a discussion as to whether members of the AfD organization should work in civilian service – as teachers in schools, police or German armed forces.
