Accusations of Nepotism: Söder Slams AfD's "Clan-Like Structures"
Söder: "Clan-Structures" within the AfD - Söder slams AfD over 'clan-like' hiring and far-right shift
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has faced mounting criticism for days amid allegations of nepotism. Now, CSU leader Markus Söder has weighed in on the controversy.
In the debate over AfD lawmakers hiring relatives as staff, Söder sharply condemned the party. "The employment practices among AfD representatives increasingly resemble clan-like structures," he told Mediengruppe Bayern (Wednesday).
He warned that the AfD was continuing to shift "further to the extreme right" rather than moving toward the center. His advice? The party should remain under surveillance by Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. "Second, we shouldn't demand a hysterical, moralistic ban—that could just hand the AfD martyr status."
The AfD is under fire after reports that some of its lawmakers have employed family members of other AfD representatives as staff. Current parliamentary rules already prohibit legislators from hiring their own relatives, partners, or ex-partners at taxpayer expense. However, the regulations do not address the hiring of such individuals in the offices of other lawmakers.
Read also:
- American teenagers taking up farming roles previously filled by immigrants, a concept revisited from 1965's labor market shift.
- Weekly affairs in the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag)
- Landslide claims seven lives, injures six individuals while they work to restore a water channel in the northern region of Pakistan
- Escalating conflict in Sudan has prompted the United Nations to announce a critical gender crisis, highlighting the disproportionate impact of the ongoing violence on women and girls.
