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.”
looks like a list of leftist orgs who are red-eyed mad at losing USAID funding...
Maybe some of those folks helped write the report - expert witnesses, you know.
Well, They (and the rest of the EU and The USA too), have had the The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, RMVP), also known simply as the Ministry of Propaganda (Propagandaministerium),
More like 1200 pages, I've heard. Anyway, the vice president of the BfV responsible for the report was born in Istanbul...hmmm. Leftwing interior minister instructs the BfV (they are NOT an independent body) to dig up some dirt. The Turk happily finds some on the party that would rather not have more of his countrymen flooding into Germany. Details are kept secret. Yep. Smear job accomplished.
Add to the theatrics...comments yesterday indicate that Faeser (Minister of Interior) got the report in mid-to-late November...doing nothing with it, and publicly saying she didn’t read it (over 4 months?).
One sense I get...if you banned AfD...that 25-percent have to go ‘somewhere’ (won’t be CDU/CSU, Greens, Linke or SPD).
In theory, they could find some reason to hook up with BSW (if they could devise some migration agenda), and suddenly go from 4.8-percent...to near 30-percent. As goofy/wild as that idea is...it just begs the question how this negative AfD report was kept super-secret for 5 months.
Finally, one obvious twist here....did BfV have under-cover agents in AfD...like the Bavarian Secret Police have in 1919.....hiring that Hitler-guy to secretly join the Nazis?
I think it’s a given that they have undercover agents (provocateurs even?) in the AfD. Like when they created quite a debacle when they wanted to ban the NPD some decades ago (who actually were not quite constituionalists).
The difference today is that the judiciary has been corrupted, especially at the highest levels. They are little more than political tools who will do what the leftwingers tell them to. As they just recently showed when the gigantic debt program and changes to the constitution were challenged. (Putting “climate protection” in the constitution is nothing short of a catastrophe that will bear many poisonous fruits in coming years.)
Good/breaking news: Merz just failed to be elected chancellor! First time that has ever happened in post-war Germany. Chickens...home....roost...
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