EU Parliament, Brussels, P9 CRE-PROV
(2021)03-11(4-023-0000).
Frau President.
Before I begin, one word to you: In your dovecote lie
already two love letters from me to you, to which I would gladly at anytime
have an answer. And please control your postal delivery so that we do not get
the impression that your personnel organization was at times as insufficient as
your assembly leadership.
As to the matter: Poland and Hungary stand here under
suspicion of violating the state of law [Rechtsstaatlichkeit].
It would on the contrary be sensible to direct a glance at Germany. The judges
were appointed according to political criteria. The public prosecutors are not
independent. The SPD, a governing party, is one of the largest media owners in
Germany. And just recently a regional prosecutor in Berlin published a book in
which he comes to the fact that we in Germany have no state of law… because the
procedures would last so long that even serious criminals were ever again set
at large.
And naturally my own party is also directly affected by
this. The Constitution Defense has now been twice whistled back by the courts
or been shown the boundaries, because it had just designated the AfD as a test
case – even that was illegal – and had in inadmissible ways leaked the
observation to the media. And that was clearly a violation of the law. And in so
far as it is about the state of law in Germany, it is plainly not in order.
In addition is the government’s setting aside of essential
basic rights in the area of Corona policy. This was ever again sharply
criticized even by your colleague Kubicki, yet also by many constitutional
judges.
Thus when we speak of the mechanism of the state of law, we
should occupy ourselves not so much with Poland and Hungary but with the
continually disturbing conditions in Germany.
[trans: tem]
