German Federal Constitutional Court dismissed on Tuesday three lawsuits filed by Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) right-wing party earlier this year against the country’s government against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policy during the 2015 migration crisis.
“In an order published today, the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court unanimously dismissed as inadmissible… three applications… filed by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) parliamentary group in the Bundestag. The applications were directed against the refusal of entry of persons in need of protection at the German border in particular in the year 2015,” the court said in a press release, published on its official website.
Over 2 million foreigners entered Germany in 2015, almost doubling the number of migrants compared to the previous year, according to the German Federal Statistical Office. In 2017, AfD, which has adopted a tough anti-migrant stance, entered Bundestag for the first time in the party’s history.