US EditionWhy Afd Candidates Threaten the End of Local Elections
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In Rhineland-Palatinate, an AfD politician is excluded from the mayoral election in Ludwigshafen. Joachim Paul takes legal action against it - and also fails in second instance.
Joachim Paul remains excluded from the mayoral election in Ludwigshafen. The Koblenz Supreme Administrative Court confirms in second instance that the AfD politician "does not offer the guarantee that he will always stand up for the liberal democratic basic order."
Not only in Ludwigshafen does the Electoral Committee have doubts about the constitutional consistency of an AfD candidate and has excluded him from the election. Is this legitimate to protect democracy – or does it harm it in the end?
The AfD is unlikely to run in the mayoral election in Ludwigshafen next month. The Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate today definitively rejected the appeal filed by candidate Joachim Paul. The responsible electoral committee had accused the civil servant, teacher, and state parliament member of anti-constitutional activity, based on a dossier commissioned by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. An AfD cand…
AfD politician Joachim Paul, who was excluded from the mayoral election in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, also failed in his appeal against the decision in the second instance.
KOBLENZ – The AfD politician Joachim Paul remains excluded from the OB election in Ludwigshafen even after a decision of the Oberverwaltungsgericht Rheinland-Pfalz. The court rejected Paul's urgent request against a previous decision of the administrative court. There would be "sufficient evidence that the applicant did not offer the guarantee that he would always stand up for the free democratic basic order within the meaning of the Basic Law",…
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