After the meanwhile classification of the entire AfD as “secured right -wing extremist” by the constitutional protection, the debate about a prohibition procedure against the party has flared up in Germany. CDU general secretary Carsten Linnemann has now made it clear that he sees this very skeptically.
He considers such a procedure to be “politically highly dangerous,” said Linnemann of “Welt am Sonntag”. “All well -known legal experts say that such a procedure would be very difficult according to the current situation and that the outcome is uncertain.”
You can’t forbid frustration, you can only dissolve them through good politics.
Carsten LinnemannCDU general secretary
Linnemann added that the procedure would take a long time and the AfD could fully exploit its supposed victim role. A possible AfD ban would also not be an answer for their ten million in part frustrated voters, according to the CDU politician. “You can’t forbid frustration, you can only dissolve them through good politics.” A party ban can be applied for by the Bundestag, the Federal Council or the Federal Government from the Federal Constitutional Court.
Kramer said he was certain: When the new government boosts the economy and stops illegal migrationthen the AfD will also be significantly weakened. “Because then she loses her business model: Lay cork when there is bad news,” said Linnemann.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) Had announced that the AfD only treated the AfD only as a “right -wing suspicion” and not as a “secured right -wing extremist” party until the end of a court proceedings. The BFV submitted a so -called standstill commitment. Almost a week earlier, the domestic intelligence service had shared the AfD accordingly with an expert opinion.
We have now reached a risk level for our democracy, where a ban procedure is indicated in my view.
Stephan Kramer, President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution
The President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramerconsiders a procedure for the ban on the AfD to be appropriate. “We have now reached a risk level for our democracy, where a prohibition procedure is indicated in my view,” Kramer told the Evangelical Press Service (EPD). “But that does not mean that the political argument would be obsolete,” he emphasized: “On the contrary: it has to continue.”
On Sunday nationwide action day for AfD ban
The Thuringian constitutional protection had already classified the AfD state association as proven in 2021. In contrast, no lawsuit was filed. Stephan Kramer has been at the head of Thuringian Protection of the Constitution since 2015.
The defensive democracy now has to “set a clear stop sign,” said Kramer. With regard to the Thuringian AfD, he emphasized that the protection of the constitution sees the risk that the party would have to attack and eliminate central principles of the freedom-democratic basic order through its agitation. This included the principles of human dignity, the rule of law and democracy.
On Sunday there is a nationwide action day under the motto “No more excuses-AfD ban now!” planned. In more than 60 cities, the alliance “Together against Right”, together with the “AfD ban” and other civil society organizations, called for demonstrations. The alliance calls on the Federal Government To initiate a ban procedure against the AfD.
A clear majority of Germans are for an AfD ban. In a representative survey of the Insa survey institute, which is exclusively available to the Tagesspiegel, 53 percent of the participants are applying for a ban on the party to be requested from the Federal Constitutional Court. (lem)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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