What government spokespersons previously passed off as “case-by-case evaluation” and “proportionality” has now been unmasked as a cold-blooded system directive establishing an administrative single-party state. An internal, secret “Guideline” issued by the SPD-led Ministry of the Interior in Lower Saxony under Minister Daniela Behrens reveals the full extent of state-driven repression against political opponents: simply serving as a local party treasurer, making a political donation, or holding a parliamentary seat now suffices to administratively execute opposition candidates before local elections.
The Ministry as a Censorship Board: Daniela Behrens’ Mask Falls
Under the bureaucratic title “Guideline for Checking the Loyalty to the Constitution of Applicants for the Office of Chief Administrative Officer”, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior drafted a directive breathing the spirit of pure ideological tyranny. It serves as the binding blueprint for local supervisory authorities and politically appointed electoral boards.
In public, the executive branch falsely claims that mere party membership in the AfD—which is targeted by the domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz)—does not automatically lead to a ban from candidate lists. However, a strict look at the operational manual issued by Behrens’ ministry exposes this lie. The document meticulously details how to lower the threshold for de facto professional and candidacy bans so that every active opposition member inevitably gets caught in the administrative net.
“Treasurer Position Sufficient”: Transforming Voluntary Work into a Crime
In Section 4 (“Membership in an Extremist Party or Organization”), the apparatus reveals its totalizing logic. Beyond the blanket smear provided by intelligence services, the Ministry demands “further relevant activities” to seal the verdict of suspected disloyalty to the constitution. These “activities” verge on both absurdity and scandal:
- Criminalizing Party Administration: “Relevant activities include, in particular, holding prominent party functions regardless of the organizational level (e.g., chair, treasurer, and their deputies).” Anyone managing the finances of a local district chapter is already committing an anti-constitutional act in the eyes of the SPD apparatus—justifying their removal from the ballot!
- Guilt by Association for Campaigning: Even “activities […] that make a positive contribution to the advancement of the party, election or member recruitment, or the public perception of the party” are cited as sufficient grounds.
- Holding a Mandate as an Offense: Anyone currently serving as a state, federal, or EU lawmaker for the AfD is automatically classified as compromised. Without having made a single unconstitutional statement, the simple exercise of a democratically elected mandate suffices to exclude candidates from future executive races.
It was precisely this unashamed logic that was applied in the case of AfD Member of the Bundestag Martin Sichert, who was purged from the candidate list in the district of Friesland.
The Administrative Purge of Democracy
This guideline is not a legal document—it is an administrative execution manual. The SPD-led Ministry of the Interior has engineered a matrix where the verdict is decided in advance:
- The strongest opposition party is labeled “extremist” via a politically instructed intelligence service.
- Every form of legal participation in this party—from distributing flyers to serving as local treasurer or holding a seat in parliament—is classified as an “anti-constitutional activity.”
- Subordinate authorities are instructed to revoke the citizen’s constitutional right to stand for election.
Through this procedure, the party privilege under Article 21 of the German Basic Law—which reserves the power to ban or restrict a political party exclusively to the Federal Constitutional Court—is rendered entirely obsolete. The Interior Ministry in Hanover has usurped the role of judge and jury over the sovereign will of the voters.
Conclusion: The Rule of Law Under Party Control
The scandal in Lower Saxony delivers incontrovertible proof: the rulers of the Berlin Republic have long abandoned the shell of constitutional democracy. When administrative work for a legally permitted opposition party deprives citizens of the most fundamental right in a free society—the right to stand for election—it is no longer “defensive democracy.”
It is Political Persecution in its purest form. Minister Daniela Behrens and her administrative apparatus have established a precedent accelerating Germany’s slide into a bureaucratic dictatorship. The people are left to choose only those candidates whom the ruling cartel has pre-filtered through its ideological screening.