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Will Germany Ban the Far-Right AfD?
- Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the AfD as an extremist group, leading to demands for legal action against the party in 2025.
- This development follows years of BfV surveillance and political debates about defending democracy against parties that might undermine the constitutional order.
- However, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt stated on a recent Tuesday that the evidence from a 1,108-page BfV report was insufficient to justify banning the AfD.
- Dobrindt described the ongoing debate as unhelpful and called for efforts to reduce social divisions, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz directed CDU leaders to refrain from any further discussion about banning the party.
- This impasse suggests the AfD may remain legal, though exclusion from Bundestag posts and continued political marginalization could affect its influence and voter support.
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Opinion of the Constitutional Protection: Is that Enough for an AfD Ban?
Since the expert opinion of the constitutional protection on the AfD is in the world, a possible AfD ban is again intensively discussed. But how do expert opinions and possible prohibition procedures relate legally to each other? By Max Bauer and Marit Brink.
German Government Wants to Examine Prohibition of the AfD
The German federal government wants to deal with a ban on the AfD. The Ministry of Justice wants to examine the exclusion. The party was recently classified by the constitutional protection as "secured right-wing extreme." Germany's Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig pleads for an examination of an application for a ban on the right-wing populist AfD. The party "must be taken very seriously as a possible danger to our democracy," said the social…
"They Wouldn't Be Gone Suddenly by a Party Ban: Chancellor's Chief of Chancellery Frei Wants to Fight AfD Politically
The calls for the initiation of a trial for an AfD ban have become louder. The CDU politician and head of the chancellor's office Thorsten Frei warns against false ideas.
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