The AfD wants to get rid of Sayn-Wittgenstein

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The Alternative for Germany wants to exclude the prominent party member, the country Princess, Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein. Another Chapter in the tough defensive struggle with the protection of the Constitution.

The German right-wing populists are under pressure. But not because your survey would become worse, which are stable at around 15 percent. But because, after many years, the German domestic look secret service for the first time in more detail, what the party. The AfD is planning a system crash?

The protection of the Constitution is organized like many things in Germany on a Federal level. Therefore, the AfD and the international youth organization “Young Alternative in each of the länder” already a case for the protection of the Constitution. At the Federal level will be examined, as it goes on, an observation with message funds could come in the next year.

For the AfD, that would be a bitter defeat. Because that does not fit the claim of many in the party want a conservative-bourgeois Alternative to the leading Christian Democrats. Therefore, several protection were taken measures on the way.

Roland Hartwig (right), head of the “AG protection of the Constitution”, in addition to party leader Alexander Gauland

The AfD of wool draw a clear border to extremist organizations and individuals, said in the beginning of November the head of the specially established “working party on the protection of the Constitution”, Roland Hartwig: The AfD was constitutional, the allegations politically motivated.

Therefore, the strategy can be summarised, needs to improve the AfD’s Image. With hand-outs if you want to prevent verbal provocations. But these provocations have typically populists – the party grow.

Also important is “the rapid introduction and implementation of measures, if such individual cases should occur in the party”, in the strategy paper. So quickly much is….

Country Princess cut

Doris, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein enter is now one of those “individual cases” but a celebrity. Less because of their noble title, they should be adopted, but because the 64-Year-old AfD-Chairman is in the northernmost Federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.

The stumbling block is this: you campaigned in 2014 for the club, “memorial e. V.”, which has been classified by the protection of the Constitution as the extreme right. A Angela constant year-long membership disputes of Sayn-Wittgenstein.

Now, the expulsion from the AfD threatens her because of it. The Federal Executive has launched a so-called party exclusion proceedings, from the party’s internal court of arbitration will be examined. What can last according to experience. In addition, the legal hurdles for a party of exclusion in accordance with the German party are right-quite high. A reminder: The attempt to throw the right man in the AfD, Björn Höcke, from the party, failed because of these hurdles.

Sayn-Wittgenstein said she had not been 2014 yet a member of the AfD and in 1992, the Association was at that time as a “non-profit”. Has not helped the argument. According to the Federal Executive decision you need to make your party office web rest. The other Job as Chairman was to get rid of before because of this “thing”.

It’s not So simple

The AfD has an incompatibility list, a kind of Blacklist, but with their implementation. Who, for example, was formerly a member of the extreme-right NPD, or similar groups, will not be included – so far, so clear. However, this has not stopped in the past, the party leader Alexander Gauland and Jörg Meuthen, biographical contacts of members in this scene as “youth sins” to downplay. Or to demonstrate how, in the case of “Pro Chemnitz” in addition to members of a prohibited Association.

Here she was able to laugh: Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein on the AfD-party conference in December 2017, had voted almost on party Chairman

The idea behind it is that The AfD should be not only to civil but also to the ultra-right camp. Because, they think, here a lot of votes to be collected.

The new strategy of “AG protection of the Constitution” is not enforce in Parts of the party as easy as some would have it. It was out of the country associations openly expressed displeasure at the fact that the AfD – to put it crudely – to fast to the rules of the policy-operation-adapting. Finally, it was assumed, however, as the System Alternative. Others leave the party because they had become too radical.

For Example, “Young Alternative”

An example of the shows in the last few weeks, discussions about the party’s youth. The “Young Alternative” (YES) is checked in already from the protection of the Constitution. Also because there is a covert cooperation with the “Identitarian” – also extremely and also actually, on the incompatibility list of party standing.

The AfD leadership – the sound made after a fierce crackdown – to check whether the whole youth of the Union should be dissolved. But that led to protests by, among others, Björn Höcke. Ultimately, it was said, could insist on.

The AfD is now hoping to self-cleaning effects, want to sanction individual faster and stronger. However, the latter is already done in the past by members of the Board.

The protection of the Constitution as an excuse for infighting

Through everything in the AfD draws a line, namely, the struggle between the nationalist wing and the Moderates, who are flirting with libertarian ideas. Sayn-Wittgenstein is a good example of this. The right-wing belonging to the politician – some called you the “Princess of darkness” – was chosen a year ago almost to the party Chairman. But to prevent only a Moderate on the party tip. Ultimately, Gauland then made the race, to reconcile both camps.

Since then, Sayn-Wittgenstein is in the Temperate red cloth. That is now done politically, is to you as a point of victory. On the other hand, she was heard at the last party Congress, some Radical as unteachable. Others saw it as a competitor. They threw their parliamentary group, these have been working for one and a half years, as Chairman to get rid of.

In the case of Sayn-Wittgenstein shows how much the AfD’s fighting with himself. The fear of the protection of the Constitution has fueled the front line battle.