Carsten Hütter, September 7, 2020, Riots in Leipzig

AfD Kompakt, September 7, 2020.

Leftist extremists have been brawling for the past three nights in Leipzig. Against this leftist extremist rioting, there must be proceedings with the full strictness of the law. It cannot be that a minority of violent leftists oppress entire sections of Leipzig, harm police officers and damage the property of citizens.

Renewed rioting has already been announced for next weekend by the leftist extremists. Since most of the extreme left, violent perpetrators can be identified, I demand that Saxony Interior Minister Roland Wöller get busy before next weekend and re-establish security in Leipzig.

Since 2014, the AfD delegation in the Saxony state legislature has warned of foreseeable developments in the area of leftist extremism. The governing CDU has hitherto rejected in the state legislature all AfD motions to combat leftist extremism. The Saxony Minister-president Kretschmer (CDU) now apparently wants to proceed against the leftist extremists. Nevertheless, he long since could have done that – only he would have had to support the motions of the AfD.

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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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