Far-Right AfD Surge Is Warning for Germany's Other Parties, Says Winner Merz

Kronen Zeitung

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At its party congress, the SPD decided not to engage in fair competition in the Bundestag, the Bundesrat and the government for a banning process against the alternative for Germany. "With a party that abuses democratic rules to fight democracy from within, there is no fair competition," the resolution states. Furthermore, it is argued: "Every attempt to integrate them into the democratic discourse runs into the void." The SPD sees itself confir…

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)

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A working group is to collect evidence for right-wing extremism and then present it to the Federal Constitutional Court.

NOS

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The German social democratic coalition party SPD wants the government to work on banning the AfD party. The SPD adopted a motion to that effect at its party conference. Since last month, the German intelligence service has considered the AfD to be a right-wing extremist organisation and a threat to democracy. Now that the domestic intelligence services have confirmed this, there is no room for "tactical games", says Lars Klingbeil. He is one of …

Deutsche Welle

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The SPD calls for a ban on the far right AfD and initiates preparatory steps. However, the legal hurdles are high - and the coalition partner remains skeptical.

nd-aktuell.de

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While the Left, the Greens and the SPD are in favour of examining a possible ban on the AfD in Brandenburg, voters in the federal state see this in a majority different way.