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AfD faces calls to be banned after German State brands party ‘extremist’
Brussels Signal ^ | 5 May, 2025 | Anne-Laure Dufeal

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.”


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To: Teacher317

Freedom of Choice, is what you’ve got

Freedom from Choice, is what you want

-DEVO


21 posted on 05/05/2025 7:46:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marron
They are prepared to defend mass migration at any cost.

Of course. That's where they'll get the votes.

22 posted on 05/05/2025 7:47:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Of course. That’s where they’ll get the votes.


And the cheap labor.


23 posted on 05/05/2025 7:48:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

AfD is very popular in the eastern half and more. Could Germany split again along those lines?


24 posted on 05/05/2025 7:49:19 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: montag813
Full sanctions vs Germany if they do this. Trump has to be ready to bring the hammer down on these tyrants.

It won't matter. In less than 4 years, DC will be back to their usual destructive path, and the majority of the world will succumb to the Leftist onslaught. The West will be gone within 2 decades, and only rivers of blood will change anything... maybe a century away... and even then, nothing says that the change would be back towards Limited Government or Western-style freedoms or Judeo-Christian norms. Trump II is simply a hiccup in the race towards our own self-destruction, in the name of sanctimony and propaganda that, in the end, essentially, the majority of white women were just too stupid and easily manipulated to see through.

25 posted on 05/05/2025 7:51:41 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: MtnClimber

The extremist parties are the ones running things over there.


26 posted on 05/05/2025 7:52:29 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Lurker

Let’s hope it bites them in the keester.


27 posted on 05/05/2025 7:53:48 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MtnClimber

Its all good

The mask has already been ripped off the Brussels Marxists and Davos Globalists.

They are in open suppression and tyranny mode.

As Ghandi said: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

It won’t be long now.


28 posted on 05/05/2025 7:55:03 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Phoenix8

There are many different names for totalitarianism.


29 posted on 05/05/2025 8:02:05 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: MtnClimber

I’m looking forward to the day when all EU leftist/globalist filth are ineffectively pleading for their lives as a bloodthirsty, howling mob closes in on them. That day can’t come soon enough.


30 posted on 05/05/2025 8:02:32 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, they won’t have to wait for too long - their country is being overrun by muslims, Merkel let in 1 million of them (tell me THAT isn’t extremist), which will change the demographics of the country permanently given disparate birth rates.

Germany, unfortunately, will be conquered from within and turned into an Islamic state (muslim “migrant” already brag about this)

When that becomes a reality, all political parties will be banned except for one Islamic one which will install sharia law.


31 posted on 05/05/2025 8:09:30 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Teacher317
Trump II is simply a hiccup in the race towards our own self-destruction, in the name of sanctimony and propaganda that, in the end, essentially, the majority of white women were just too stupid and easily manipulated to see through.

I think it's a noble experiment. We are being genuine in wanting to involve women in the political process. We truly believe in making a better society and all that jazz. I think there's a word for it. Utopia.

Anyway, our ancestors sort of knew what they were doing. There's a reason why we've passed down traditions from generation to generation.

Our civilization may collapse but hopefully our descendants will learn from our mistakes.

32 posted on 05/05/2025 8:09:32 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Teacher317
Trump II is simply a hiccup in the race towards our own self-destruction, in the name of sanctimony and propaganda that, in the end, essentially, the majority of white women were just too stupid and easily manipulated to see through.

I agree with you that the globalists/marxists are still in control of our institutions and culture.

But up until 2017 - we didn't even know who they were. We just accepted the fake GOP vs. Democrat paradigm. The same in Europe.

Trump may not be the savior, but he has brought the opposition out into the open and drawn their fire. He has drawn the battle lines. That's reason for optimism right there.

33 posted on 05/05/2025 8:09:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MtnClimber

They are looking for a civil war. The party that has the most support going to be banned by a coalition of other parties. What could possibly go wrong?


34 posted on 05/05/2025 8:18:22 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: MtnClimber; All
Allow me to introduce all of you to Thomas Haldenwang, the current head of German Domestic Intelligence (German Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (Bfv), who has categorized the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as “definitely right-wing extremist."

Hmmm...

35 posted on 05/05/2025 8:18:54 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper (Please remain seated until your civilization comes to a complete stop.)
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To: MtnClimber

They never learn from history.


36 posted on 05/05/2025 8:21:13 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: MtnClimber
Another example that the battle the Western world faces is between the globalist elite, the ones destroying countries like Germany with mass migration and green energy, and nationalists that love their country and want policies that are best for the people.

Globalism (represented by the EU/NATO/WEF) is as tyrannical as communism every was.

37 posted on 05/05/2025 9:06:48 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: MtnClimber
Ironically, banning the AfD is what Hitler would have done.

Even more ironic, the Weimar republic used emergency laws to censure newspapers and political speech. Hitler was prevented from speaking in several German states, and Nazi newspapers were stopped publishing hundreds of times.

And then when the Nazis gained power (a majority but always less than 50%)they used these laws to act against their enemies.

It made the Machtübertragung so much easier.

One would have thought the Germans remembered their history.

38 posted on 05/05/2025 9:53:48 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: MtnClimber

“The German Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution”

Straight out of “1984”.


39 posted on 05/05/2025 10:05:56 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

first they came for the patriots...


40 posted on 05/05/2025 10:22:07 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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