German parliament to debate ban on far-right AfD next week ｜ DPA
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The German parliament is to debate an application for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in plenary session for the first time next week, its proposers said in Berlin on Monday. "With its constantly increasing radicalism, the AfD is expressing historically revisionist positions with increasing blatancy," one of the initiators, Marco Wanderwitz of the centre -right CDU, said. He cited a recent statement from AfD co-head Alice Weidel, in which she termed Adolf Hitler a communist. Carmen Wegge of the centre-left SPD called on the Bundestag to open the way for the Constitutional ...

Summary

Germany’s parliament will debate a proposed ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) for the first time next week.

The proposal cites the AfD’s increasing radicalism and historically revisionist statements, such as co-leader Alice Weidel’s claim that Hitler was a communist.

Under Germany’s constitution, a party ban requires proof of opposition to constitutional principles.

Critics warn that a ban could portray the AfD as martyrs.

The AfD currently polls in second place at 20% ahead of February elections.

  • FelixCress@lemmy.worldEnglish
    751·
    3 months ago

    My grandad who fought in WW2 used to say to me “You don’t speak to Nazis, you shoot Nazis”.

    To translate this into modern world: AfD should be banned and its politicians should go to prison. The same with all far right across Europe.

    We allowed nazis take power once, we must not make the same mistake again.

  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    215·
    3 months ago

    I suspect banning them will make them more powerful than they are. What we really need to do with these movements is to ridicule them at every chance possible, do not only condemn them but actively mock them and treat them with the highest degree of disdain. Make it clear that a shitstain is more worthy of consideration than them. We used to do that with the KKK in the US and it worked wonders.

    • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      I suspect banning them will make them more powerful than they are.

      No. It takes away a huge chunk of their finances and their structures. It will not make them more powerful. This is not Star Wars, and even there, I never understood how Kenobi was supposed to become more powerful by being killed.

      What we really need to do with these movements is to ridicule them at every chance possible

      People tried that in the US, see how well that worked out?

    • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Have you ever heard of the following?

      First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

      Ridicule is helpful, but not sufficient. The new right has established itself all over western democracies. They have built organizations, institutions, parties, companies, etc.