Action alliance alarmed by using neo-Nazi candidacy in Brandenburg

The Brandenburg motion alliance in opposition to proper-wing extremism warns of neo-Nazis in neighborhood politics. The reality that the formerly convicted Wittstock mayoral candidate Sandy Ludwig may be a success in the election on September 24 may be very unrealistic, stated Action Alliance chairman Thomas Wisch to the Evangelical Press Service (epd) on Thursday in Potsdam: “But it's miles pretty alarming that Ludwig obviously feels safe enough to make that leap into the public eye.”

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This movement is as a substitute uncommon for militant neo-Nazis from the spectrum of businesses together with the so-referred to as Free Forces, the “Weisse Wölfe Terrorcrew”, Combat 18 and others, stated Wisch: “It is all the extra to be hoped that he'll experience a number of opposition.” Ludwig makes no mystery of his attitude.

“He has been a famous neo-Nazi for decades, that's precisely why he has time and again were given into war with the regulation,” emphasised the Protestant theologian and superintendent of the Mittelmark-Brandenburg church district.

Mayoral candidate “get up to every person, everywhere”

“The fact that someone like that desires to become mayor may additionally reason a shake of the top in the beginning,” stated Wisch: “But you need to recognise that a neo-Nazi like Sandy Ludwig knows of route that he has little or no threat of getting this workplace .” Presumably the hope for the office become no longer the motivation for his candidacy.

It’s not just about the normalization of right-wing and racist humans and positions, emphasized the chairman of the movement alliance: “Such a candidacy is related to a sure exposure, which a militant neo-Nazi can use here inside the worst case as a degree for his propaganda.”

The fact that Ludwig had “a totally affirmative courting to National Socialism” is widely known, stated Wisch: “It is therefore vital to factor out who we're dealing with right here and what inhuman positions he represents.” On the only hand, that may be a challenge the media. On the opposite hand, it is essential “to rise up to him always and anywhere”. “Then the other applicants and now not least civil society are also asked”.

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Ludwig is standing inside the election as an man or woman candidate and therefore only needed 44 supporter signatures for the candidacy. Philipp Wacker (CDU/loose electoral network), Ralf-Thomas Schulz (SPD) and Karsten Simon are also jogging as character applicants for the office of mayor of Wittstock. (epd)