The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) state-level branch in Bavaria passed a “Bavarian resolution for remigration” during a party conference on Saturday.
The resolution urges the mass return of foreigners to their home countries and the prevention of asylum seekers from ever reaching German soil.
It was introduced by the AfD’s deputy state chairman Rainer Rothfuss at the conference in the town of Greding.
“Protection from war and persecution will be granted in accordance with international law, but no longer on German or European [Union] territory for non-European asylum seekers,” the resolution states.
Bavaria “insists that the government and the EU establish protection and development zones outside of Europe.”
Rothfuss said that Germany risked becoming “a hammock for the whole world” if tough measures are not taken.
While many migration hard-liners call for individuals who have committed crimes to be deported and the number of arrivals to be drastically reduced, what Bavaria’s AfD is calling for is far more sweeping.
The resolution states that “groups with weak integration abilities and willingness should be returned to their home countries through mandatory return programmes and supported in reintegrating into their origin society as well as in the (re)construction of their homeland.”
Within the Bavarian AfD, supporters of a more moderate line are battling sympathizers of the far-right AfD politician Björn Höcke, a controversial hard-line firebrand who leads the party’s branch in the state of Thuringia, for dominance.
