Ralph Weber, September 3, 2020, Judicial Appointments

AfD Kompakt, September 3, 2020.

The Administrative Court in Schwerin is ordering the Justice Ministry to re-appoint the presidents of the Higher Regional Courts [Oberlandesgerichts]. It thereby thwarts Minister-president Schwesig’s plans to appoint the highest magistrates in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern according to party membership or gender, making clear that the only permissible criteria for appointment are qualification and performance. So as to frustrate the applicant Kai-Uwe Theede, an earlier, professional decision had been set aside in scandalous and obscure ways by the Justice Ministry.

It is good that the Administrative Court defends the independence of the judiciary against the Minister-president. In a purely professional decision, Kai-Uwe Theede from the outset would have been named court president. With her illegal assault on the authority of the judiciary, the Minister-president inflicted heavy damage on the respect for justice, and this on the backs of the blameless judges Kai-Uwe Theede and Monika Köster-Flachsmeyer. The state of law here indicates the limits to the quasi-dictatorial tendencies of the Minister-president. In any case, here the state of law is working and still guarantees the separation of powers.   

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Jörg Meuthen, September 4, 2020, Navalny

AfD Kompakt, September 4, 2020.

The unclarified case of Navalny ought not put into play our supply security. No evidence whatsoever has so far been produced that Moscow is behind the presumed poisoning of Navalny. That is a possibility, just like other criminal occurrences. He who reproaches others for a deficient state of law should himself declare no hasty judgments without due process and without substantial evidence.

It is irresponsible that Manfred Weber does this. Where he in his function should represent honestly considered German and European interests, there is with him a prevailing anti-Russian reflex. He appears to remain mentally suspended in the Cold War. No serious policy can thus be managed in the year 2020. The Federal government so far holds onto Nord Stream 2. It presently appears questionable how long they will still do this. The pressure, from within and without, to stop the project is increasing – we recall the recent, fully unacceptable threats from some American senators to destroy the harbor of Sassnitz, important for Nord Stream 2, in case Germany adheres to the realization of the almost ready project. There can be no yielding to this pressure; since the European domestic supply of natural gas is declining but the requirement remains the same. We therefore need, all the more as a consequence of Merkel’s disastrous, so-called energy transformation, additional natural gas. The supply security of Germany and of all Europe is more important than Weber’s personal sensibilities and American business interests.   

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Kay Gottschalk, August 31, 2020, Wirecard

AfD Kompakt, August 31, 2020

As to Wirecard, we are talking about a firm which, according to insolvency administrator Michael Jaffé, has at its disposal 26.5 million, and that with a 3.2 billion euro mountain of debt. A restructuring plan for this hopelessly over-indebted firm is therefore utopian.

Further questions continue to re-emerge; for example, how the Federal government and the Russian secret service and other officials are involved in this affair. The role of the Frankfurt exchange also remains obscure.

Not to be overlooked is the 100 million which Wirecard alone has been loaned by the KfW [Credit Institute for Reconstruction] and which remains with the German taxpayer.

Where the almost two billion euros have been left, which are missing from the account of the former DAX concern, even so continues to be an open matter.

Sufficient grounds for the AfD’s Bundestag delegation not to tire and today and again tomorrow demand an investigating committee which shall finally bring light to the great darkness.

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