Armin-Paulus Hampel, July 22, 2019, Ukraine Election

Armin-Paulus Hampel

Ukraine Election

AfD Kompakt. July 22, 2019


[Armin-Paulus Hampel is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the western German state of Lower Saxony. He is a former television journalist and is currently the AfD’s foreign policy spokesman in the Bundestag.]

I salute the overwhelming victory in the parliamentary election of the Ukrainian party “Servant of the People” with a vote portion of around 42 percent. That is a satisfying signal for which I can only congratulate the party of President Wolodymyr Selenskyi. His new plurality in the parliament primarily indicates that he has achieved no one-time victory. The way now appears clear for an extensive change in Ukrainian domestic and foreign policy. Especially the new President’s offer of talks to Vladimir Putin allows one to hope for a peaceful settlement in the conflict zone of eastern Ukraine. I expect that the western nations will now put no stone in the way of the new President Selenskyi’s attempt at a settlement solution with Russia. Since only by negotiations and peacefully can this problem be adjusted in a form acceptable to both sides.

The Ukrainian election result with the advance of the party “Servant of the People” under the leadership of President Wolodymyr Selenskyi is additional evidence of a European-wide rolling away of the stones of voter suppression of the people.The much-abused, so-called “populist parties” are there in the not to be overlooked zone of ascent. The old parties are almost entirely resigned to the remarkable formation of fresh movements under the leadership of new and cross-over climbers. These are good signs of a living democracy. Since democracy is nothing other than the “mastery of the time”. And the time of the old powers is clearly running out.

[Translated by Todd Martin]

Georg Pazderski, July 19, 2019, Bundestag Security

Georg Pazderski

Bundestag Security

AfD Kompakt, July 19, 2019

[Georg Pazderski is chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland in Berlin and leader of the AfD delegation in the Berlin legislature, the Abgeordnetenhaus. He is a retired army colonel with more than 40 years service in the Bundeswehr, including five years duty (2005-2010) at the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida.]

It is intolerable that the Bundestag will now bunker itself with a ten meter wide trench and a 2.50 meter high fence directly on the Platz der Republik. The parliament shows that it fears the consequences of its own policy which, due to uncontrolled mass immigration, has brought violence and terror to Germany.

Such so-called “Aha trenches” were installed by the DDR along the border areas of the Federal Republic and West Berlin. It is a catastrophic sign that the German Bundestag does not shrink from installing this means of an inhuman dictatorship. In the final analysis, this bunkering is cynical, the parliamentarians expending millions for their own security while the citizens of this country have been left exposed to the consequences of its catastrophic politics. It can scarcely be more distant from the citizens. 

[Translated by Todd Martin]