The EU Parliament has voted to revoke the immunity of former AfD chairman Jörg Meuthen.
The Berlin public prosecutor's office had applied for Meuthen's immunity to be lifted "in order to initiate criminal proceedings," said the report, which MPs voted for in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
The background is an AfD donation affair in which a Swiss PR company supported Meuthen in the 2016 state election campaign in Baden-Württemberg.
According to previous information, Meuthen initially wanted to keep his mandate as a member of the European Parliament in the right-wing populist group “Identity and Democracy”.
The responsible committee in the EU Parliament had already voted by a large majority to lift its parliamentary immunity at the end of January.
At the end of January, Meuthen turned his back on the AfD – according to him, because he had lost the power struggle over the direction of the AfD.
Specifically, it was about the only formally dissolved right-wing extremist "wing".
Meuthen said at the time: "The heart of the party today beats very far to the right, and it actually beats constantly." Parts of the party were "not on the ground of the free democratic basic order".
He sees “clearly totalitarian echoes” there.
The party has developed something akin to a sect, especially when it comes to corona policy.