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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - Members of the governing parties reacted with sharp criticism in the last state parliament debate before the election to a SWR report about a former employee in the Trier environment of the AfD top candidate Michael Frisch.

The FDP MP Marco Weber said that the "only thing that matters now is that this top candidate no longer belongs to parliament and thus draws the conclusions from today's reporting".

Weber asked the parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group, Jan Bollinger, in response to an interjection, to ensure that “your employees do not use any brown sauce”.

The SWR magazine “Report Mainz” reported, citing internal documents from security authorities, that “Frisch had employed a right-wing extremist and NPD candidate who was known to the police as a mini jobber for several months”.

In 2019, he worked first for the AfD district association Trier, then for the AfD faction of the Trier city council.

At that time, Frisch was both chairman of the local district association and the city council group.

"During the recruitment process, the parliamentary group has always conscientiously convinced itself that the applicants are based on our free-democratic basic order and are fully committed to democracy," Frisch replied in writing to the criticism.

"In the case mentioned, we did so with particular care, based on our knowledge of a candidacy on an NPD list many years ago."

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Further backgrounds, such as the classification of the Federal Criminal Police Office, were not known and "could not be determined even with a Google search," wrote Frisch.

"Incidentally, I would like to point out that the group had and has only employed people in the area of ​​office work."

For the Greens, MP Pia Schellhammer said in a statement from the party that the new SWR research showed: "There is nothing bourgeois-conservative or moderate about the AfD - not even the top candidate."

Those who vote AfD give their vote to an anti-constitutional party that also works with violent right-wing extremists.

A simple research before hiring the employee would have been enough to find out the connections to the NPD.

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