Posted on 05/05/2025 7:19:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The German Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (Bfv) categorised the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as “definitely right-wing extremist“, sparking widespread calls for a ban on the party.
A survey by German newspaper BILD published on May 3 revealed that some 48 per cent of respondents supported a complete ban on the AfD, including its dissolution, exclusion from elections and the removal of its MPs from the Bundestag, or parliament.
By contrast, 37 per cent opposed such a ban, while 15 per cent remained undecided or indifferent.
Banning the right-wing party could backfire, though. According to the same poll, 39 per cent believed that outlawing the AfD would damage Germany’s democracy rather than protect it.
The Bfv classification placed Alice Weidel’s party under intensified surveillance and branded its ideology as incompatible with Germany’s constitutional order.
It came at a politically sensitive moment: Latest polls showed the AfD as the leading party nationwide, a first in its history.
In response, the AfD is filing a lawsuit against Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, accusing the Bfv of politically motivated overreach, the party announced on May 5.
The ruling by the Bfv has also prompted scrutiny of AfD members employed in public service and triggered discussions about stripping the party of its access to State funding.
Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) told BILD on May 3 that officials “must examine what consequences this classification must have for the activities of AfD members in the public service”.
He added that it may also be time to review whether the party should continue receiving public money. He argued hat the Bfv decision also “gives cause to examine whether the AfD can be excluded from State party funding on this basis”.
Greens party politician and Bundestag Vice-President Katrin Göring-Eckhart on May 3 urged the Constitutional Court to investigate banning AfD as a party.
The AfD could be excluded from State party funding on that basis.
“A confirmed right-wing extremist party with aspirations against the free democratic order is a threat to democracy in our country. The Federal Constitutional Court should review a ban on the AfD,” she said on X.
Still, not all have been in favour of pursuing a legal route to negate the party.
Thorsten Frei, an MP with the Christian Democratic Union and the incoming head of the Federal Chancellery, called for a political rather than judicial strategy: “We must fight the AfD politically, not legally,” he said in an interview with The Pioneer news outlet published on May 5.
While the German Government weighed its legal options, segments of civil society have already taken action against the right-wing party.
During the Protestant Church Congress in Hanover on May 3, a resolution called “Ban AfD now” was adopted.
That urged the Bundestag, Bundesrat, and the federal government to request a ruling from the Constitutional Court on the party’s legality.
The resolution went further, urging church leadership to commit all available resources to the campaign.
This marked another chapter in the growing resistance to the AfD from religious institutions. Christian organisations have repeatedly voiced opposition to the party.
During the European elections last year, the Anti-Fascist Churches movement campaigned that AfD membership was incompatible with Christian values and should disqualify individuals from roles in the Church, its welfare arm Diakonie and organisations such as Caritas.
“The continued presence of AfD supporters in church institutions is a scandal,” a statement on the group’s petition website read.
“If extremist forces like the AfD are allowed into our spaces, we cannot call them safe and that is unacceptable.”
Ironically, banning the AfD is what Hitler would have done.
Dems would do it here in a moment.
They tried to do it by engaging in lawfare against Trump. That was no different than what the EU and France did against Marine Le Pen.
Germany slipping back into a sort of totalitarianism.
This time it’s not military autocracy, communism (almost happened) or Nazism. It’s this new weird system I don’t even know what to call:
Western radical Liberal/Deep state/mass media/ socialistic/ repressively WOKE/ open border/internationalism…
can we just call it New Marxism?
They are prepared to defend mass migration at any cost.
They already tried. They named their operation Crossfire Hurricane.
You just call something or someone “extremist” and Bomm!they suddenly don’t have any rights.
Say, what exactly is the definition of “extremist”? Is wanting to cut off the genitals of children “extremist?” How about marrying 10-year-olds? Marxism? What about banning political parties or candidates which or who have a lot of popular support? Is that “extremist”?
Full sanctions vs Germany if they do this. Trump has to be ready to bring the hammer down on these tyrants.
Another country down. That should be grounds to kick them out of NATO, since they are no longer a democracy.
It’s ‘democracy’, as long as we’re winning.
Germany being Germany - yet another reason we need to wash our hands of Europe.
The migrant ganga are to be the democRAT's storm troopers, along with ANTIFA and BLM.
Hmmmm….. a 21st Century ‘ENABLING ACT’. What could possibly go wrong.
Still this false assertion abounds, that National Socialist German Workers Party was somehow a “right-wing” party. In truth, it was always only slightly to the “right” of International Socialism, the kind of Communism represented by the Soviet Union.
There was and still is a lot of internecine competition between various flavors of socialism, but they are all on the same wavelength - a command-and-control economy, with a militaristic hierarchy structure of government, not subject to elections of popular opinion.
The AfD is NOT a “neoNazi” organization, as they still maintain the position of elective politics, and representation on the national level of a set of sound fiscal and moral beliefs.
How very fascist of them.
Don’t like your political opponents? Just ban them.
Easy peasy.
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You knew this was the next step. Now that its the most popular party in the country, the corrupt Establishment can’t allow it to exist. It might win elections! So in the name of democracy it must be banned - because nothing says “Democracy” like censoring, banning and imprisoning your political opponents.
There are 4 curious things playing out:
1. The entire report is reportedly under lock-and-key (meaning it’s confidential and limited to who can read it). As of yesterday...the Interior Minister (who is leaving her job in 2 days)...admitted she had not read it. The new guy...has yet to read it.
If they were to vote or carry out the ban...they’d have to allow all members to read the report.
If you ask me...there’s likely a executive summary of 20 pages, but the full report is a minimum of 200 pages. I doubt that any of the Bundestag members want to volunteer to read the whole thing.
2. A discussion has started up...within the police, federal employees, and military....if you are a AfD member, you may have to be let go. Considering 25-percent are now polling as supporting AfD...there’s to be problems if you suddenly dismiss 300,000 fed employees.
3. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, who wrote the report...seems to have a lot of information. It begs the question, did they have a secret-agent or two infiltrate AfD? If so...it would sound a lot like the Bavarian Secret Police of 1919 who hired Hitler to infiltrate the Nazi Party as a secret agent for them.
It would be silly to suggest this, but it begs the question....where did they get their data/info...for the report?
4. AfD says they will take this to court....so judges will drag this out and any banning action...probably can’t take place for at least six months. But the judges will ask...where did you get the information/data?
Straight from the horse’s mouth:
“According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block.” - Josef Goebbels
The Left: “We love Democracy and must protect it by refusing to permit citizens to vote for our opponents! We deserve freedom from opposition!”
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