FC Bundestag in crisis over AFD players

The German Parliament football team was unwavering that it was already right. But the Bundestag FC was thrown into a crisis after the Berlin court lifted the ban on the members of the extreme alternative to Germany from joining the team.

In the microcosm of a rich discussion on how to handle the AFD-Yaki last month, he claimed that the historical finish of the second place in the federal election-the club should decide how to respond to the ruling and whether the far-right deputies will take part in their weekly matches.

“More than 20 percent of the population voted for us and want us to submit at different offices of the parliament – as well as the Bundestag FC,” said Malte Kaufman, a member of the AFD Bundestag, which agitated against the ban. “This is an example of how opposition’s rights are trampled in Germany.”

The team goes back to 1967, when it was founded by the parliamentarians of Western German in the Bono-time capital, when the main left-wing centers and right parties together occupied more than 90 percent of places.

They play weekly matches with other amateur teams in the workplace from business, culture and civil society, as well as an annual competition against other parliamentary teams from other places in Europe.

For many years, players have included former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, former finance minister Wolfgang Sheble and Josk Fisher, the first foreign minister in the country. Two weeks before the reunification of Germany in 1990, the team played against members of the People’s Chamber of the Communist East German Republic.

The team has long arranged itself as an opportunity to create inter -party cooperation on the field and abroad.

“If you fought and swept together and showered after that, then you will also come together in the (Parliamentary) Committee,” said the team captain of Klaus Rigert The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on his 40th anniversary in 2007.

But approximately 100 members of the club attracted the line with sweat and souls with AFD, anti -immigration, party party against the EU, considerable parts of which were officially considered a threat to the democratic order of Germany by the domestic intelligence service of the country.

The 152nd Party Group in the next Parliament Includes numbers who called themselves a “friendly face” of Nazism and played Adolf Hitler’s crimes.

This is a red line for Kassema Tahera Saleh, a green legislator who said The Financial Times: “I just don’t want to take a shower with the Nazis, with the right extremists, with racists.”

Last year, the team decided to completely ban AFD members after earlier allowed some legislators in each case and after careful check.

Captain Mahmut Ezdamir, a member of the Social Democrats, said the ban was suggested by last year’s opening that high -ranking UDD officials had a secret meeting at which they discussed mass deportations, including German citizens who left the migrants.

He described the history and mass protests that followed as a “call to awaken” the nature of the party, which, he said, was “deeply right extremist values”.

According to him, the decision to ban the party from the squad was met with “great relief through the team and among the ranks of those who want to play with us.”

But the AUD reacted with furious and disputed the ban in court.

In his ruling against the FC Bundestag, the Berlin court last week said he “didn’t matter” whether there were “significant reasons” for this decision. It states that this step violated the club’s own statutes, which state that membership should be open to any current or former deputy of the German Parliament.

Now FC Bundestag is faced with the dilemma: Give AFD members to return or change your statutes.

But such a step will require two -thirds of most members as soon as the new Bundestag is convened for the first time next week. The captain will take over the Christian Democrats who came first in the last month’s elections.

At the time of last year, the ban on CDU Fritz Gunzler expressed concern that, excluding AFD only “raises their status”, enhancing their arguments against creating. Andre Khan, with the left left die Linke, said it allowed AFD to “play the martyr”.

Taher Saleh, whose East Saxonium is AFD, dismissed the idea, saying that the party would be sacrificed, no matter what. “AFD is the victim of Coronavirus, climate discussions, wind turbines, football club,” he said.

No matter how it reflected this, the party must be excluded, he claimed. “Afr may have been democratically elected, but for me, AUD is not a democratic party.”

The line is the basis of discussions in Germany on how to fight the party convinced by many critics, want to dismantle the democracy of the nation from within.

All major parties are still saying that they seek to support the “firewall” around the party, refusing to cooperate with it or allow it to join the federal or local coalition government.

The Cross Group of MPs led the impetus to the last legislative period to go even further, calling for the ban on the AFD the Constitutional Court. Several of these legislators promised to restore this effort in the coming years.

But many older German politicians are very critical of this idea. The chancellor, waiting for Friedrich Merz, warned it would be an “fest on the mill” AFD.

The created parties are also preparing for similar battles with the one who plays in the Bundestag FC on the assumption of AFD that one of its members should take on the role of the German parliament’s vice president, also a number of key reports of the commission.

“Sport is always political,” said Martin Gros, political scientist at Ludwig Maximilian’s university in Munich, even when the string over the squad seemed trivial, and AUD reflected it as “just football”.

The centrist parties were afraid that the AFD permission on the field would mark the beginning of the slippery slope, Gross said. “This is what they fear: that AFD views it as the next step to normalization. A small stone taken from a firewall.”