In view of the events in the Thuringian state parliament, CDU member of the Bundestag and former Commissioner for Eastern Europe Marco Wanderwitz is calling for the AfD to be banned. "The AfD's appearance in the Thuringian state parliament once again followed the script of disparaging parliamentary democracy and its institutions," Wanderwitz told the daily newspaper "taz". The AfD is doing this in a planned and effective manner. "There is an urgent need for a ban procedure at the Federal Constitutional Court, as provided for in Article 21 of the Basic Law," said the Saxon MP.
In the turbulent first session of the state parliament, Thuringia's Interior Minister Georg Maier (SPD) had already identified further evidence for the possibility of an AfD ban procedure. The events had shown that the AfD was aggressively combating parliamentarianism, he wrote on the X portal.
