Extremism: take away AfD members from civil service? Reul skeptical | EUROtoday

North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul warns after the AfD categorized as safe right-wing extremist of fast pictures in opposition to social gathering members within the civil service. “If you want to remove someone from the public service, you have to prove that this person has violated their duty of loyalty to the state,” Reul (CDU) instructed the WDR. “And there is a reason for membership in an organization – but is that enough? I don’t think that you will see. In any case, it has to be checked individually.”

The particular person case inspection additionally applies to potential civil servants, i.e. for individuals within the authorized clerkship, stated Reul. There is not any automatism.

It grew to become identified on Friday that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution categorized the AfD as secured proper -wing extremist. Since then, doable penalties have been mentioned. Reul emphasised that the NRW authorities would now completely consider the documentation of the Federal Constitutional Protection. It is checked which penalties the nation can draw. “I’m not a friend of quick shots,” emphasised Reul. In the tip, doable authorities measures must also have existed in court docket.

Reul reserved with a doable AfD ban process

From the viewpoint of the CDU politician, this must also apply to a doable AfD ban. “One by one: First the facts have to be checked. Then they have to be sufficient. And then, then, then, politics must weigh whether it is clever, reasonable, yes or no,” stated Reul. “I think prohibition is an important method, but there are also others. The best thing is to argue, it is best to prove that politics can cope without the AfD.”