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Posted on 03/04/2026 11:26:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
One state parliament is stripping itself of powers so that the opposition cannot use them when it takes control.
Friedrich Merz’s party, along with the other mainstream groupings in German politics, constantly brands the populist AfD as the enemy of democracy. But when it suits them, they are more than happy to trample on long-established practices themselves.
The elite late last year ousted a democratically elected deputy mayor from office in North Rhine-Westphalia, simply because she represented the AfD, on the ludicrous pretext that she might have frightened off tourists. In Lower Saxony, it has breached the party’s democratic rights by effectively excluding it from oversight of the Office for the Constitution. And in Nieder-Olm, the AfD has been altogether barred from standing in this year’s mayoral election.
Democracy will next suffer at the hands of the establishment coalition in the Saxony-Anhalt September elections, which we previously identified as having the potential to set a course for the European Union.
The AfD has long polled at around 40% in this region, well above the CDU—the party of Merz, which follows in second place with around 25% of the expected vote. So the constitution and laws are being amended there to hinder the opposition party even in the likely event of ‘victory.’
Süddeutsche Zeitung reports that the CDU, SPD, and FDP, alongside the Greens and the Left faction, are working on legislation they hope will pass in May, to—as the paper put it—“safeguard the most important democratic institutions.” This will make it more difficult for the largest parliamentary group to choose the state parliament president, and reduce its influence on the membership of the state constitutional court.
(Current) officials also want to make it more difficult to abolish the State Agency for Civic Education, which the AfD says has “increasingly developed into a left-wing indoctrination institution.”
Yet AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund claims that “much of what is now being proposed can be reversed through simple legislation or adjusted again later.” Right-wing publication Junge Freiheit suggests he is wrong to be so “unperturbed.”
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Germany is in a deep hole. Is it time to stop digging?
In the past year or so, several high-ranking AfD members/candidates “suddenly” stopped breathing.
I would not be surprised if the ones still breathing did not hire food and drink testers.
These days, every time I see the phrase right-wing, I think FREEDOM-LOVING.
The Austrian, with the funny mustache really ruined it for the German people, and White people everywhere
Has Germany, both today and in all its previous incarnations, ever supported any reasonable republic, much less democracy?
I thought they outlawed AfD. 🤔👍
Democracy is much too important to be left in the hands of the people.
They certainly came close although I think AfD rallied much support over the BS thrown at them.
The Painter preferred Islam to Christianity.
A court recently overturned that ban. It seems the people are becoming annoyed by the games from the left.
Exactly right. Hitler and the European elites prefer islam to Christianity.
They must not have enough judges to stop AfD the same way that the libs in the US do. So, they’re trying to strip out all the power before AfD can take over.
A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.Talking democracy to death. The race for “equality” is a race to the bottom. Nobody in Europe, much less Germany, would ever embrace government designed to protect individual liberty.
In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.
The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.
In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.
— Dan Smoot Report, 1966
PS. AfD is an anti-Trump party, one of many in Germany of course.
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