The football team of the German Parliament was unwavering, which she already had enough right -wing. However, FC Bundestag was thrown into a crisis after Berlin’s court abolished the ban on members of the extremely right alternative to Germany to join the team.
In a microco-figure discussion, how to deal with AFD-Koji last month he requested a historic end of second place in the federal election-now he has to decide how to respond to the verdict and whether to allow the ultimate right MPs to participate in their weekly matches.
“More than 20 percent of the population voted for us and we want to be represented in different offices in Parliament – and also in the FC Bundestag,” said Malte Kaufmann, a member of the AFD Bundestag, who was banned from the ban. “This is an example of the way in Germany pierces the rights of opposition.”
The team dates from 1967, when it was founded by Western German parliamentarians in the then capital of Bonna time when the main parties left the central and right parties together held more than 90 percent of places.
They play weeks against other amateur teams in the workplace from business, culture and civil society, as well as an annual competition against other parliamentary teams from other places in Europe.
Players over the years include former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, former Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and Joschka Fischer, the first foreign minister in the country. Two weeks before the reunion of Germany in 1990, the team played against members of the “National Chamber” of the Communist East German Republic.
The team has long framed himself as an opportunity to build mutual cooperation on and off the field.
“If you fought and sweat after that, then you will connect the UA otherwise [parliamentary] The Committee, “then Captain Klaus Riegert told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on the occasion of his 40th anniversary in 2007.
But the club withdrew about 100 members with a line of sweating and showering with the AFD, an anti-migration party against the EU, whose large parts were officially considered by the German democratic order by the domestic intelligence service.
Party of 152 strong group in the next parliament Includes figures who described themselves as the “friendly face” of Nazism and played the crimes of SS Adolf Hitler.
It is a red line for Kassem Taher Saleh, a green MP, who said of the Financial Times: “I just don’t want to take a shower with Nazis, with right -wing extremists, with racists.”
Last year, the team decided to fully ban AFD members, after previously allowed some legislators in case of case and after careful checking.
Captain Mahmut Özdemir, a member of the Social Democrat, said the ban was encouraged by last year’s revelation that senior AFD officials held a secret meeting in which they talked about mass deportations, including German nationals from migrants.
He described the story and mass protests that followed the “awake call” about the nature of the party, which he said was “deeply right -wing extremist values.”
The decision to ban the party from the team, he said, welcomed “great relief through these and among the ranks of those who want to play with us.”
But AFD responded with anger and challenged a ban in court.
In his verdict against FC Bundestag, the Berlin court said last week that it was “irrelevant” whether there was “significant reasons” for the decision. It was said that the move had violated his own club statutes, who say that membership should be open to any present or former member of the German Parliament.
FC Bundestag is now facing a dilemma: let AFD members back or change their statutes.
But such a step would require two -thirds of the majority of members after the new Bundestag is convening for the first time next week. The captaincy will be taken over by the Christian Democrats, who came first in last year’s elections.
At the time of last year’s ban, CDU Fitz Güntzler player expressed concern that excluding AFD only “increases their status” by enhancing their arguments against establishment. André Hahn, from the hard left Die Linke, said he allows the AFD to “play the martyr.”
Taher Saleh, whose East German State is Saxoni AFD stronghold, rejected the idea, saying that the party would play the victim no matter what. “AFD is a victim of Koronavirus, climate discussion, windmills, a football club,” he said.
No matter how the AFD portrayed it, the party must be excluded, he claimed. “AFD may be democraticly chosen, but for me AfD is not a democratic party.”
The order goes to the core of a discussion in Germany about how to deal with a party for which many critics are convinced that they disassemble the democracy of the nation inside.
All major parties still say that they are dedicated to maintaining a “firewall” around the party refusing to cooperate with him or allow him to join the coalition government at the federal or local level.
The Crusade of MPs led the push during the last legislative period to pass even more, urging the AFD to ban the Constitutional Court. Several of these legislators have committed themselves to renewing these efforts in the coming years.
But many older German politicians are very critical of the idea. Friedrich Merz, who is waiting, warned that it would be a “grizz” AFD.
The established parties are also preparing for similar battles as those played in the FC Bundestag over the AFD claim that one of its members should take on the role of vice president of the German Parliament-as well as a series of key committees of the Committee.
“Sport is always political,” said Martin Gross, a political scientist at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, even if the line over the team looked trivial, and AFD portrayed it as “only football.”
Centristic parties were afraid that the allowance of AFD on the field would mark the beginning of a slippery slope, Gross said. “This is what they are afraid of: to see it as the next step towards normalization. A small stone taken out of the firewall.”
