AfD before ban? Now the Bundestag is deciding!

AfD before ban? Now the Bundestag is deciding!

in Berlin in a few weeks, the Bundestag will discuss for the first time about a ban on the alternative for Germany (AfD). The aim is to have the state -strongest party in the country, according to surveys, to have the Federal Constitutional Court decided whether a ban is justified. A group of MPs from the CDU/CSU, Left Party, the Greens and the SPD brought the application together, with at least ten members of each parliamentary group participated.

The advance for the ban comes from the Saxon CDU parliamentarian Marco Wanderwitz. After almost a year of preparation, he has now found enough supporters to bring the application to the parliament. In order to be able to make the application, at least five percent of the members of the Bundestag are required, which corresponds to 37 signatures. Hikingwitz failed for a long time at this hurdle, but the recent election results of the AfD in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg with around 30 percent of the votes have now given him the necessary support.

is there a majority for the AfD ban?

The applicants argue that the AfD pursues an “actively combative-aggressive attitude”, which aims to destabilize the free-democratic basic order. This also reports the "world". According to the previous case law of the Federal Constitutional Court, this condition is required for a party ban. If the court does not agree to a ban, the parliamentarians apply in an alternative that the AfD is excluded from state financing. This would be practically incapable of acting because it could no longer finance its campaigns and employees.

It is questionable whether the Bundestag actually gets a majority for the application. Although MPs from almost all factions - apart from the FDP - support the application, there are many doubts as to whether the Federal Constitutional Court will ultimately agree. Some fear that a rejection could even give the potential ban additional buoyancy. For example, the FDP MP Katja Adler criticizes the application on the platform X and thinks that the impression can arise that the prohibition supporters are more afraid of democracy than about democracy.

nations in comparison: unique situation in Germany

In the recent past, the Federal Government and the Bundestag failed twice to ban the right -wing extremist NPD (today: home). The last attempt failed due to the so-called "potentiality", which means that there must be a real danger that the party to be banned will seriously endanger the freedom-democratic basic order. The applicants argue that this is different with the AfD.

Germany takes up a unique position here because it is the only western country that is seriously trying to ban an important opposition party. If this attempt is successful, Germany would also be an exceptional case among western democracies in this regard. More Details on this topic can be found in a detailed report on Jungifreich.de . .