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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - According to its own statements, the AfD Brandenburg has filed two lawsuits against the observation of the state association by the state protection of the constitution.
With the lawsuits before the State Constitutional Court and the Potsdam Administrative Court, the AfD is opposed to observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said the party's agent, Professor Michael Elicker, on Tuesday.
In addition, Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) should be prohibited by means of an interim order from reporting on the observation of the party.
The Brandenburg AfD was classified as a suspected right-wing extremist case by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution last year.
"There must be no observation of the largest opposition party in the country by the state government, or by the government-run protection of the constitution," said Elicker in support of the complaints.
This means that equal opportunities for the parties as the greatest good of democracy are no longer guaranteed.
"Brandenburg's AfD is under suspicion of right-wing extremism because there are sufficiently weighty actual indications," said the interior ministry spokesman, Martin Burmeister.
The AfD is of course free to have the right-wing extremist suspected case reviewed by a court.
"We take note that the AfD now, after more than seven months, still wants to make use of this option."
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SPD parliamentary group leader Erik Stohn declared that it was the task of the protection of the constitution to identify anti-constitutional efforts.
"The AfD could have excluded right-wing extremists, they could have cut contacts with right-wing extremists, they could have changed their behavior - none of that happened," stressed Stohn.
Rather, there was a further radicalization of the AfD.
"We know that the AfD maintains contacts with right-wing extremists and, in terms of effective protection of the constitution, I would even like to know whether the AfD has contacts with right-wing terrorists," said Stohn.
Green parliamentary group leader Benjamin Raschke said he had studied the reasons in the files that led to the classification of the AfD as a suspected right-wing extremist case by the constitution protection.
"I have no doubt about it," said Raschke.
Initially, this was mainly due to the member of the state parliament and former AfD state chief Andreas Kalbitz, who has since been excluded from the party.
"But if you look at the new leadership, there is no difference, if not a tightening."
According to the press offices, the complaints had not yet been received on Tuesday at both the state constitutional court and the administrative court.
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