The Brandenburger AfD– Member of Parliament Andreas Kalbitz has failed with his urgent motion against his expulsion from the party. The Berlin Regional Court rejected the claim. This means that the 47-year-old’s party membership will be canceled until a decision is made in the main proceedings.
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In a first trial in June, the judges granted an urgent motion from Kalbitz against his expulsion from the party by the federal executive committee. The judges had stated at the time that the cancellation of party membership by the federal executive committee was inadmissible. Rather, the party arbitration tribunal is responsible for terminating membership. After the Federal Arbitration Court had confirmed the decision of the federal executive committee at the end of July, Kalbitz went to court again (read an analysis here).
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The AfD federal board had declared Kalbitz’s membership null and void in May with a narrow majority. As a reason for the decision, the board stated that when he joined the party in 2013, Kalbitz had not given a previous membership in the now banned right-wing extremist “Heimattreuen Deutsche Jugend” (HDJ) and with the Republicans between late 1993 and early 1994. In addition to Thuringia’s head of state Björn Höcke Kalbitz is considered the most important representative of the right-wing national tendency in the party.
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Kalbitz announced on Tuesday that he was withdrawing from the parliamentary group chairmanship in the state parliament, which he actually only wanted to leave pending the decision of the court. The background is the hospitalization of the Parliamentary Managing Director Hohloch. The young politician said he had come to the clinic last week with a ruptured spleen. Previously, according to information from the party in the state parliament, Kalbitz had inadvertently touched him violently. Kalbitz himself spoke of a “mishap”.
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