AfD: Constitutional protection agency monitors AfD parliamentarian Nolte
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is keeping an eye on the AfD. Meanwhile, in Bavaria, the third state parliamentarian is under observation.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) state parliamentary deputy Benjamin Nolte is now under observation by Bavaria's Constitutional Guard, according to a response from Interior State Secretary Sandro Kirchner to a request from the Green party. The Augsburg Allgemeine newspaper was the first to report this news. Nolte himself stated on a dpa inquiry that he was unaware of this decision. He found it "ridiculous," which seems to be based on the AfD's success in opinion polls.
It has been known for some time that two other Bavarian AfD MPs, René Dierkes and Franz Schmid, are under Constitutional Guard surveillance, as well as the AfD party itself. The confirmation of this measure by the Administrative Court of Munich came in June. The rationale for Nolte's surveillance is the suspicion that he might abuse his position to fight against the free democratic constitutional order, as stated in Kirchner's response.
Nolte is also linked to the so-called Remigration concept, propagated by the head of the Identitarian movement in the German-speaking region, Martin Sellner. The Federal Constitutional Court had deemed this concept to be against human dignity. In addition to this, Nolte made numerous unproven statements against the principles of democracy and the rule of law, alleging that politicians from other parties betrayed, sacrificed, or waged war against the German people, which could seriously undermine trust in parliamentary democracy and the constitutional order.
Nolte is also considered a qualified supporter of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement, as he shares its content, expresses solidarity with its activities, and occasionally appears with its activists. Currently, the observation by the Constitutional Guard is being examined for another AfD deputy. Katharina Schulze, the Green party faction leader in the state parliament, welcomed Nolte's observation, stating that the Ministry of the Interior's reasoning clearly showed the significant danger he posed.
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