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State Service: Saxony Does Not Ask for Party Affiliation

Summary by mdr.de
The AfD membership in Saxony continues to be no obstacle to a job in the state service. This was clarified by the Ministry of the Interior after the announcement of the corresponding plans in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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The red-green-yellow state government in Rhineland-Palatinate takes the first step into the darkest chapters of German history and excludes party members of the AfD from the state service! On what basis are police officers, teachers or administrative employees discriminated against because of the "wrong opinion", and what can victims of this anti-democratic arbitrariness do? In this post you will learn from Dr. Stephanie Elsässer. COMPACT-TV [..…

The AfD membership in Saxony continues to be no obstacle to a job in the state service. This was clarified by the Ministry of the Interior after the announcement of the corresponding plans in Rhineland-Palatinate.

AfD members are now banned from public service in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. This applies to civil servants, police officers, teachers, and other public employees. The measure has drawn strong criticism from constitutional lawyers and politicians, Bild reports.

Several state lawmakers consider it unconstitutional to exclude AfD members from the state service solely because of their party membership - as planned in Rhineland-Palatinate.

In the AfD it happens again and again that members from party or factions are excluded, one thinks for example of the Leipziger Roland Ulbrich. Currently courts in Saxony intensively deal with a case in Chemnitz. There the city council faction wants to get rid of the chairman of the district association – so far unsuccessful. In April, what some media started [...] The post AfD faction in Chemnitz wants to get rid of member and ignores thereby c…

Rhineland-Palatinate excludes AfD members from the state service. The SPD in Schleswig-Holstein demands a similar approach. A draft law on the review of constitutional consistency is already in progress.

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ndr.de broke the news in Hamburg, Germany on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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