In November 2015, the Federal Ministry of Education put out a press release under the title Rote Karte für die AfD, red card for the AfD. It said: Die Rote Karte sollte der AfD und nicht der Bundeskanzlerin gezeigt werden. The red card should be shown to the AfD and not to the chancellor. The AfD went to the Federal Constitutional Court. On 27 February 2018, the court ruled that the minister, Johanna Wanka, had violated the party’s right to equal opportunity. The government may engage with criticism of its work sachlich, on the matter. Ein „Recht auf Gegenschlag” dergestalt, dass staatliche Organe auf unsachliche oder diffamierende Angriffe in gleicher Weise reagieren dürfen, besteht nicht. There is no right to strike back, in the sense that state bodies may answer unobjective or defamatory attacks in the same way.