Germany's Constitution Protection Office Seeks to Ban AfD
AfD-Verbot: Rot-Rot-Grüne Koalition in Bremen will Verfahren einleiten
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/29798053
AfD-Verbot: Rot-Rot-Grüne Koalition in Bremen will Verfahren einleiten
der norden bleibt stabil
I’m sure it’s some Russian and billionaire backed attempt to destroy a democracy like America. Good for them for if they can stop it in its tracks early.
Do it! And then spit the chairman out into the crowd like Ozzy did that fake bat head.
That was not a fake bat. Ozzy was rushed to the hospital after the show for rabies shots. If I recall correctly he thought it was a prop and that’s why he did it.
It's a wet dream to imagine the same thing happening over here
Hey, a country can dream.
English auto-translation of the original:
According to the Constitution Protection, the AfD is secure extremely right-wing, and now the red-red-green coalition in Bremen wants to launch a party ban procedure. SPIEGEL has a request for urgent procedure.
05.05.2025, 16.35 hrs.
AfD politicians in the Bundestag
Photo: Frederic Kern / Future Image / IMAGO
On the basis of the AfD AfD's classification, Bremen is to advocate the swift initiation of a party ban proceeding against the AfD as "secured right-wing extremist" by
the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution at the Federal Level. The red-red-green coalition of the Hanseatic city wants to bring a corresponding application to the Bremen citizenry.
The draft on the urgent request is available to SPIEGEL, it is signed by all three parliamentary groups and was unanimously adopted by the SPD parliamentary group on Monday afternoon. The Senate is therefore to engage in talks with the new federal government and thus work towards a ban procedure.
Furthermore, Bremen, in consultation with other federal states, is to initiate a Federal Council initiative in parallel in order to apply for a ban procedure at the Federal Constitutional Court via a majority in the Federal Chamber.
"We do not want to be accused of the fact that it is too late for this at some point," said SPD parliamentary group leader Mustafa Güngör to SPIEGEL. The basis is the classification of the AfD as "protected right-wing extreme" by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. "At the latest, we now know assured that the AfD is threatening our freedom-democratic basic order. Our coalition in Bremen therefore does not let up and continues to push for the initiation of a ban procedure."
The amendment to the preurgent request to the Bremen Parliament Mustafa Güngör and the SPD parliamentary group, Henrike Müller and the parliamentary group Alliance 90/The Greens, as well as Sofia Leonidakis, Nelson Janßen and the parliamentary group Die Linke have signed.
It is a slippery slope to ban a party. But. The paradox of tolerance is true. If it's tolerated. It will eventually take over.
Just like it's trying to do in the U.S.
What stops them from changing party name and continue as before?
In theory? Nothing.
In practice? If the court rules, that a ban is justified, it not only rules, that the AfD is unconstitutional and thus banned, but also all future groups that can be seen as its successors will be banned.
Note for everyone:
There is three bodies that can start an investigation by the constitutional court to ban a party. The federal government. The federal parliament and the state assembly composed of representatives of the state governments.
The federal government, both outgoing and new one already made it clear they have no intentions to start the procedure.
The federal parliament whose majority coalition forms the government also has only shown lackluster motivation.
It is unlikely that the state of Bremen will manage to get a majority in the state assembly as the majority of state governments is run by the reactionary CDU/CSU and the now right wing and often authoritarian and racist SPD. Also states need to agree on a position for their vote in the state assembly to be considered.
In the current political climate this ia good to do, but there is a long way to success as the majority political powers want to keep the AfD around to secure their position and to justify their own racist ans inhumane policies as "moderate" in comparision.
