Hubig wants to use emails when examining the AfD ban

Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig believes that hundreds of thousands of AfD emails published on the Internet could help pave the way to banning the party. The SPD politician spoke in the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” in favor of a federal-state working group that would examine the chances of success of a ban procedure. In principle, she can use all the information that is available. “The emails could also be used if they provide evidence of the AfD’s unconstitutionality,” said Hubig.

According to their own statements, unknown persons recently published data on the Internet, which is said to be around 421,000 AfD emails. The AfD is being monitored nationwide by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a suspected case. Individual state associations are classified as definitely right-wing extremist by the respective state Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

“I am convinced that we must now seriously and systematically examine whether the requirements for a ban procedure are met,” said Hubig. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) also recently spoke out in favor of a federal-state working group to examine a possible AfD ban procedure.