Posted on 11/21/2018 8:34:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
Alice Weidel, the parliamentary group leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is being formally investigated for violating campaign finance laws, the public prosecutor’s office in the southern city of Konstanz announced Tuesday.
The AfD branch in Lake Constance is accused of receiving large sums of money from a Swiss company in the leadup to Germany’s 2017 general election. The vote saw the AfD become the largest opposition party in the Bundestag.
The donations from abroad, paid in 18 tranches, reportedly amounted to more than €132,000 ($150,000).
The prosecutor said the probe would target Weidel and three other AfD officials in her Lake Constance constituency.
In a meeting on Friday, the AfD’s federal executive backed Weidel and dismissed the allegations against her as baseless.
Under Germany’s strict party donation laws, it is illegal to accept campaign contributions from states outside the European Union. Parties that break that rule face a financial penalty of three times the amount received. …
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Didn’t the Germans start WW2 by claiming Poland attacked a German radio station?
I guess it makes sense to keep using a con if it works...
Once I saw “Far Right” I knew why he was being investigated.
How come there’s never a far left?
Yup. Maybe Mueller’s German relatives will be the prosecutors for the phony allegation.
The money was transferred back. I do not think this will go anywhere.
Wonder what the term far right means to them? Private property? Freedom of religion?
Well in Germany Merkel is considered “right” so anyone more conservative then her is considered “far right”.
The only party that qualifies as “far left” is Die Linke, which is the former East German Communist Party.
Exactly
Russia investigation in Germany
This is what liberals do. Attack. Accuse attack. Investigate the accusations
They use the media as a bludgeon
I can’t stand them and am so glad that trump has the balls to take them on and the smarts to not fall into their trap. ( firing MuleHead )
How many stories have there been on him just being about to fire him
And that that’s an impeachment offense ? Thousands. Over two years
Trump is 100 times smarter than them and also must be clean as a whistle
That’s pretty far left!!
The Greens are just as much far left as AfD is far right.
After the smoke has cleared....there are some obvious odd factors in this episode. Most commercial donor ‘players’ know the German rules (having dealt with other parties), so why this group went to the illegal method leads you to wonder if this was a ‘game’ rigged up...so that AfD would get deep into legal woes.
Typically...drug companies slip money to the CDU or CSU Parties...in some legal way. This episode makes me think that someone in those parties convinced the contriubtors to play out this game and get the AfD deep into court activity and heavy fines. The AfD political folks are all new at this and wouldn’t have grasped how they might have been rigged up to stumble.
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