Bernd Baumann, the parliamentary manager of the AfD’s Bundestag group, confirmed that the party is conducting a legal review of a constitutional complaint aimed at stopping the alleged misuse of billions earmarked for infrastructure projects. Speaking to the TV network Welt, Baumann said that the party’s experts are “out there doing the work” and that they will pursue every possible legal avenue. He added that the government must be held accountable not just politically but also in a strictly legal sense.
Baumann likened the alleged diversion of funds-promised as part of election pledges-to a level of unscrupulousness that is usually attributed to undemocratic regimes in Turkey or Russia. He warned that if a government promises loans or credit to cover half a trillion but then misuses the money against those very pledges, democracy has effectively lost its meaning. In his view, the solution is to ensure the administration is brought back onto a legal trajectory, using all possible legal routes to do so.
Although Baumann expressed a willingness to welcome the resignation of Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD), he does not believe it will happen soon and does not directly call for it. Instead, he stresses that the government must be politically challenged and that these actions come just months before the state elections.
