The dispute over the election of Kemmerich as Prime Minister of Thuringia ends up at the Federal Constitutional Court: the AfD sees her equal opportunities violated by statements by the Chancellor. The AfD has already been successful in a similar conflict.
Because of the statements made by Chancellor Angela Merkel on the election of prime minister in Thuringia, the AfD has submitted two organ lawsuits to the Federal Constitutional Court. This includes urgent applications directed against “continuing violations of government and chancellor rights”. The background is Merkel’s comments on a trip to South Africa. The Chancellor had criticized the election of an FDP prime minister with the votes of the AfD and CDU as “unforgivable” and demanded that this be reversed.
The AfD Federal Chairs Jörg Meuthen and Tino Chrupalla criticized that these statements have so far been published on the websites of the Federal Government and the Chancellor. Merkel “used the international stage to delegitimize the result of democratic elections in Germany and to ban coalitions,” Meuthen said. The AfD accuses the Chancellor of “abusing” her office and “violating” the equal opportunities guaranteed by the parties in the Basic Law.
Role model for Seehofer lawsuit
According to the party, the second organ complaint is against the Federal Government publishing the “boycott appeal against the AfD” on an official website. Chrupalla referred to the Karlsruhe ruling from the beginning of June on the AfD criticism by Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer, which was published on the Ministry’s website. The Federal Constitutional Court had assessed this as a violation of the state’s principle of neutrality and a violation of equal opportunities in political competition.
In the election of the prime minister in Thuringia on February 5, the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich was elected with the votes of the CDU and AfD. On February 6, during a state visit to South Africa, Merkel described the election as “unforgivable” and said that “therefore the result must also be reversed”. A few hours later, Kemmerich announced that he wanted to resign. In early March, left-wing politician Bodo Ramelow was finally re-elected as prime minister.
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