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Dessau-Roßlau (dpa / sa) - In June 2019, the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament rejected a committee of inquiry into left-wing extremism requested by the AfD.
The AfD MPs and a non-attached MP saw their minority rights had been deprived of their rights and went to the state constitutional court.
That wants to announce his decision on Tuesday (10 a.m.) in Dessau-Roßlau.
The AfD and the non-attached MP brought the necessary quarter of MPs together to support the U-Committee.
The SPD, the Greens and the Left voted against, the CDU abstained.
So there were more no than yes votes in the plenary, and the motion was rejected.
The state constitution states that the state parliament has the duty to set up a U-Committee at the request of at least a quarter of its members.
The SPD, the Left and the Greens consider the application illegal, among other things because it is not specific enough and exceeds the powers of the state parliament.
Links between parties, trade unions, clubs and associations to left-wing extremists should be investigated.
In the process, private matters should be spied on, civil society and political opponents should be researched, argued the procedural agent for the state parliament, Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz, at the hearing on November 17th.
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The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt has already set up six U-committees in the current electoral period since 2016.
Most came about at the request of the AfD, which is the largest opposition faction in Magdeburg's parliament.
In addition, a commission of inquiry on left-wing extremism was convened at her insistence.
Press release of the State Constitutional Court of Saxony-Anhalt from July 17, 2020 with information on the procedure