Banning the AFD Would Make Them Stronger

The hurdles for a party ban are high, which the Bavarian Greens also admit. Nevertheless, they demand the quick examination of an AfD ban procedure. They have already decided themselves.

Friedrich Merz collects criticism from the opposition, but also from his own ranks. CDU party colleague Daniel Günther speaks clear words about the AfD ban.

With Verve, Green Chief Felix Banaszak spoke out in favour of an action against the AfD. A banning procedure must come, "before it is too late." Schleswig-Holstein's CDU Prime Minister Daniel Günther said similarly.

The dispute over the AfD in the CDU continues: Now the Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister is calling for a ban procedure after the Chancellor had previously rejected it. Meanwhile, the new Minister of Health is planning an offensive against a well-known party drug. All developments in the live ticker.

Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Günther continues to press for a vebot trial against the AfD.

Recently, the German intelligence service labeled the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as anti-democratic extremists. Now the report has been leaked, and has triggered a sharp debate about the intelligence service's methods and political motives. This is a debate that should also be linked to other agencies in many European countries, then with the same starting point; critical questions about methods and political motives.