Munich (dpa / lby) - After several unsuccessful attempts to have a parliamentary group member elected to the parliamentary control committee of the state parliament, the AfD is now moving again to the Bavarian Constitutional Court. A lawsuit had been filed there, said parliamentary group leader Ulrich Singer on Thursday in Munich. In the summer of 2021, the top Bavarian judges dismissed an initial lawsuit by the AfD for not being elected to the committee, on the grounds of inadmissibility.
Among other things, the PKG controls the work of the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which is why the members are subject to special confidentiality. According to the law, the body consists of seven MPs, divided according to the strength of the parliamentary groups. Casting is usually a formality. Since the end of 2018, however, no AfD parliamentary group member has been able to secure a majority behind them in numerous elections - the election in the plenary session is secret, the MPs can vote freely. The place is therefore vacant. The AfD is also not represented in the control committee of the Bundestag.
AfD faction leader Ulrich Singer criticized that in Germany the "domestic secret service is used to politically monitor the opposition". "For our democracy and the rule of law, it is an indictment if the AfD is excluded from the control of the domestic secret service," he argued.
In fact, members of the AfD in Germany and Bavaria have repeatedly been the focus of the protection of the constitution because of their proximity or contacts in the right-wing extremist scene. The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution has also been monitoring the youth organization of the AfD, the "Young Alternative for Germany" (JA), as well as any follow-up activities of the now officially dissolved right-wing "wing". For its part, the AfD sees the protection of the constitution as an authority that should "silence" voices critical of the government.
