US EditionLudwigshafen: Afd Applicant Excluded From Ob Election – Rightly
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The AfD became the strongest force in the city on the Rhine during the Bundestag election. Therefore, its candidate for the office of mayor took good chances – until the constitutional protection prepared a dossier.
In Ludwigshafen, AfD candidate Joachim Paul was excluded from the mayoral election. NZZ journalist Beatrice Achterberg looked at the case: "A free choice, a democratic election certainly looks different.
Finally, a panel uses one of the instruments that democracy holds ready for the fight against its enemies. A paragraph in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal order is precisely there for the purpose of not letting a heretic like Joachim Paul get near the power.
Joachim Paul is not allowed to take part in the election of the OB. The Electoral Committee doubts his compliance with the Constitution. AfD announces legal action.
In Ludwigshafen, a hitherto unprecedented attack on democracy is taking place: the AfD politician Joachim Paul was excluded from the mayoral election. Behind this is a left-green alliance including Antifa and a "judgment" of the state constitution protection of Rhineland-Palatinate, which is based not on criminally relevant statements, but on contact guilt and non-leftist views. Constitutional lawyer Volker Boehme-Neßler commented: "We know from…
In Ludwigshafen (Rhineland-Palatinate), the AfD candidate was not approved for the mayoral election. The AfD received 24.3 percent of the vote in the federal election – and now has no candidate. Candidate Joachim Paul was discredited by a compromising document from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and rejected by the electoral committee due to alleged doubts about his loyalty to the constitution. Is Ludwigshafen, then, a…
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