The AfD has achieved partial legal success in a lawsuit against the President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer. The Weimar Administrative Court upheld a corresponding lawsuit brought by the Thuringian regional association of the AfD in one case. The judges dismissed the lawsuit on several other points.
As the court ruled, Kramer violated the principle of neutrality when, as a representative of the authorities, he “assessed the content” of the AfD’s program. The proceedings concern Kramer’s statements in a conversation with the newspaper published in Suhl Free word in June 2023. In it, Kramer said that the AfD “actually has no political alternatives and solutions to offer” and has “hardly any existing program”.
State bodies are not allowed to make judgmental statements about the programs of individual parties, the court said in support of its decision. This affects equal opportunities in political competition. The judges’ decision is not yet final.
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