The Left Party in the Saxon state parliament considers the motion tabled by the AfD for a coronavirus investigation committee to be inadmissible. As a minority, the AfD has the right to set up such a committee, explained MP Rico Gebhardt. "However, it has no right to give this committee unlawful orders."
According to the AfD, the committee of inquiry should primarily clarify legal issues, such as whether measures were disproportionate, legally impermissible or even unconstitutional, said Gebhardt. "A committee of inquiry cannot and must not do that; that is the task of the courts. This shows that the AfD actually wants a tribunal."
The AfD made the motion, which had already been submitted, public on Tuesday. It is intended to critically examine the work of the Saxon government in connection with the coronavirus in the period from 2019 to 2024. AfD parliamentary group leader Jörg Urban had already attested to the government's "serious violations of fundamental rights" in advance.
