Posted on 07/11/2025 6:11:41 AM PDT by fluorescence
People belonging to extremist organisations, including the far-right AfD party, will be blocked from taking up government positions in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the state's interior minister has announced.
Members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won't be able to enter public service positions in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate going forward, the state’s interior minister, Michael Ebling (SPD), announced on Thursday in Mainz.
The western German state is changing the rules around recruitment for civil servants.
Specifically, applicants for government positions will be required to declare that they do not belong to an extremist organisation (and have not in the past five years).
The move effectively bans AfD members from becoming civil servants, because the far-right party is under observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the state of in Rhineland-Palatine.
The rule change may impact existing employees in the public sector as well. Going forward, membership of an extremist organisation could constitute a disciplinary offence.
Disciplinary actions would vary depending on individual cases, but employees with proven violations of their duty of loyalty to the constitution could expect to be removed from service.
"Loyalty to the constitution is not a wish or a recommendation…it is the immovable duty of every civil servant in our country," said interior minister Ebling. "Anyone who puts himself at the service of this state must be loyal to the constitution at all times, without ifs and buts."
According to the state’s interior ministry office, even stricter requirements apply to police officers.
AfD politician rejects the move
The AfD is not happy about the move, and has reacted with criticism of the interior minister.
AfD member of parliament and deputy state chairman Sebastian Münzenmaier slammed the move as a “declaration of political bankruptcy”.
In defence of the rule change, state interior minister Ebling said that “a suspected case [of extremism] means that there are sufficiently verifiable indications of anti-constitutional tendencies”.
The AfD party has been designated as a confirmed extremist organisation in several German states.
In May, the party was labeled as a right-wing extremist group at the national level by Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV). However, the party immediately challenged the label in court, causing the BfV to suspend the classification until the legal appeal is resolved.
This will end well.
Will they be required to wear identification emblems when traveling outside their homes?
It’s the Mainz stream media, riling up the Germans again.
Perhaps a star of david
Sounds familiar.
“extremist”
Because nothing says “Democracy” like banning your political opponents.
The gathering storm. A war history professor, David Betz, out of Kings College in London has been getting a lot of Youtube airtime lately wherein he discusses the increasing likelihood of civil wars breaking out in Europe and the UK. He says there no longer is a “political off ramp”.
Totalitarian government on the march.
“a suspected case [of extremism] means that there are sufficiently verifiable indications of anti-constitutional tendencies”
Well, there you go! What’s not clear about that?
There is something in German DNA that turns people into Nazis.
Rhineland-Palatinate, aka Rheinland-Pfalz (it’s easier to say in German than it is in English) is a beautiful state featuring rolling hills and vineyards. It produces some of the world’s greatest wine, particularly if you like white wine. The German Wine Highway (Deutsche Weinstrasse) runs from Bockenheim in the north to the French border through the wine country west of the Rhine. Donald Trump’s family is from Kallstadt an der Weinstrasse, which lies along this highway.
They did Nazi that coming.
That would be like New York State prohibiting Republicans from state employment - wait, I think both Cuomo and Hochul have said conservatives aren't welcome in NYS.
Hmmmm. This reminds me of something about 90 years ago...
The AfD party is barely right-wing, let alone “extreme far-right”.
They would be $hitting bricks over there if they had a German MAGA party.
Europe is toast. They have only themselves to blame.
So members of a group termed ‘right-wing’ by German Left-tards are the new ‘undesirables’? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Do AfD members call THEMSELVES ‘far right’? No. What about ‘extremist’? No.
Yet the media plays that fiddle to support the political isolation of people the government doesn’t like.
We have a word for that.
It’s so tiresome. It’s as though they’re not even bothering to keep the mask on anymore.
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