Who is behind the “Association for the preservation of the rule of law and civil liberties”, calls himself independent, but only for the AfD election campaign?
On page five of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine” of 17. August flaunts a half-page advertisement with the portrait of the German Bundestag Erika Steinbach. In addition, the sentence: “Why I’m going to AfD”. When politicians call to Select a party, then you normally do for your own party. Not so Erika Steinbach: The 74jährige belongs to no party. Until the beginning of this year they sat for the CDU in the Bundestag, but resigned then to Protest against the refugee policy of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party and faction. Now she is factionless.
Lonely in the Bundestag: Erika Steinbach.
Clear that the Alternative for Germany, would welcome you with open arms, especially since Steinbach expressed for several years about the AfD. This was “a rule of law, democratic grouping, and thus also our competitor as our potential Partner,” she said of 2014, while the CDU excludes a total of a coalition with the AfD categorically. However, a Crossing to the AfD Steinbach rejects.
Steinbach justified their commitment to the AfD in the display, especially with an in your eyes false migration policy. Merkel added, “Germany heavy damage”, while the Bundestag did not perform its control function. The AfD was “the only force that is capable and willing”.
Nothing brings AfD sympathizers on the palm tree as Merkel’s previous culture of welcome
Yet an apostate from the Union
Behind the election advertising, with the members of Steinbach an “Association for the preservation of the rule of law and civil liberties e. V.”. It was founded a year ago. Its Chairman, David Bendel’s comes also from the Union, in his case, it is the Bavarian CSU. There he was in the so-called “Conservative awakening” for a return to “real CSU policy” and the party had “adapted to the” red-green “Zeitgeist”, and criticised it. For him, the conclusion of the CSU, as this ban on him, an appearance at the AfD event. Bendel said in an Interview with the right weekly “Junge Freiheit”, the AfD is at the Moment for him, “the only selectable party”. Party member, he is not. From even further to the right of the man who initiated in September 2016, the founding Assembly of the Association comes to be without, however, also a member of the Association: Rolf Schlierer was a long time national Chairman of the party, The Republicans.
The Online edition of the “courier” that the club are: AfD-election advertising
In spite of the obvious close Connections to the AfD and its ideology of the club of “politically unbound sees”. However, he takes out, according to Bendel’s “the right choice to make recommendations”. For parties other than the AfD, the Association has advertised in the past. In his “Manifesto”, he positioned his also in the spirit of the AfD: no to the “million-migrants current” and “Merkel cultural welcome,” to the “negative interest rate policy of the European Central Bank” and the “sexualisation of our children missed Early”.
Posters from Switzerland as a suggestion
The same claim, “to be politically and religiously independent”, representing the newspaper the “Kurier”, the of the club since last month, matching the Bundestag election campaign. Editor-in-chief David Bendel’s is again. The authors read like a right-conservative to right-populist Who-is-Who: in addition to Steinbach (also here), the former “image”-chief Peter Bartels, but also the AfD politician Konrad Adam and Guido Reil, as well as from Austria, Barbara Rosenkranz, which had sent the FPÖ in 2010 as a candidate for the office of the Federal President in the race; meanwhile, it is but from the FPÖ.
Has previously served as a template in other countries: poster of SVP of the Agency’s GOAL
And there are even more Connections abroad: The “Association for the preservation of the rule of law and civil liberties” is, especially with politicians and journalists of the Swiss people’s party (SVP) and the Swiss Agency GOAL AG. The managing Director of the SVP politician Alexander Segert. Wes spirit child of Segert of Germany, he once said: “I give the fear a voice.” Whether against “mass immigration” or minarets – Segert-designed motifs and posters will not be taken up only by the supporters of the AfD like they are now-right movements around the world as a template.