In Bavaria, the AfD failed again to legally force membership in a parliamentary body.
It was about the election to the body that controls the work of the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
The party recently suffered a similar defeat in Karlsruhe.
There the Federal Constitutional Court rejected an urgent application with which the AfD wanted to be represented in the Presidium of the Bundestag.
Both in Munich and in Karlsruhe, the AfD's proceedings failed for formal reasons; the judges did not rule on the matter. It is manageable, because the members of the parliamentary bodies are determined by elections. And there is no legal right to be elected.
This does not answer the more decisive political questions here. They concern the general way of dealing with a party that lives from provoking and then posing as a victim. In principle, the other parties are well advised not to allow this narrative in the first place and to ensure equal treatment in the formal parliamentary operation. But when it comes to the parliamentary supervisory body, there are weighty reasons against accepting members of a party that is itself the focus of the protection of the constitution - also in Bavaria.