Following allegations of dodgy links to Russia and China, one lawmaker referred to Alternative for Germany as a “party of treason.”

Following allegations of dodgy links to Russia and China, one lawmaker referred to Alternative for Germany as a “party of treason.”

The far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is in dire trouble as it deals with the fallout of allegations that two of its leading candidates for the European election have dodgy links to Russia and China.

During a debate in parliament today, lawmakers from across the political spectrum slammed the AfD, accusing the party of pandering to authoritarian regimes and presenting a security risk to Germany’s democracy.

The party is “betraying and selling out the German people,” Marc Henrichmann, a lawmaker for the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said. The AfD, he added, is a “right-wing party of treason.”

Dirk Wiese, a lawmaker belonging to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), accused the AfD of “feigned patriotism,” adding: “Maybe it’s not your own country that you love so much. Maybe it’s dictatorships like China, Russia and Belarus.”

  • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
    610·
    7 months ago

    What are the odds this is Germany’s “deep state” aka bureaucratic institutions stitching them up because they’re unable, or unwilling, to democratically stem their rise?

    It’s not like Western governments haven’t been doing that to socialist and Communist parties long before the Cold War even started.

    Of course, the news that any contemporary far right organization has ties to Russia, including financial, isn’t surprising. Maybe it’s a bit of both, because I have serious doubts that Germany’s other parties could withstand financial audits tying their members to shady dealings with China either.

    • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
      63·
      7 months ago

      The AfD is openly fascist for anyone who can put one and one together. For instance one of the leading figures in the AfD Björn Höcke lost a defamation lawsuit, because the court ruled that the term “fascist” is not a defamation but a factual statement when referring to Höcke.

      The current government is wiggling around not doing anything against them, aside form some photo ops at demonstrations, after plans for mass deportations of all foreigners and “ungerman” Germans discussed by the AfD, the “conservative” CDU and the in between “WerteUnion” (value union) members with Austrian Neonazis.

      The week after theses plans were made public by investigative journalists the current government of “social democrats” SPD, “greens” and “liberals” FDP passed a law to make deportations of asylum seekers easier, in particular by denying constitutional rights such as privacy and freedom of movement to them.

      Meanwhile the “conservative” party and the “liberals” are claiming not to work with the AfD, while passing laws together with them on the state level or denying funds for holocaust memorials sites, local theatres that are “too left” or organizations that support victims of hate crime and document hate crime.

      If there is any form of “deep state” then it is welcoming fascism with open arms.

      In regards to the police and internal intelligence there have been dozens of whatsapp or other messenger groups between police members uncovered, where they shared nazi memes, demanded another holocaust and suggested raping women who were victims of crimes. Most of the officers have been suspended with pay at best, not facing any formal disciplinary, leave alone criminal conviciton, despite German hate crime laws. The former head of the interior intelligence Hans-Georg Maaßen had to resign a few years back, after claiming videos of migrants being chased in the streets of Chemnitz to be fake news. He has since found the “WerteUnion” and tries to get CDU and AfD to openly work together. He also posts typical antisemtic conspiracy theories on twitter, again without any consequence.