SPD boss Lars Klingbeil sees the examination of an AfD ban as a necessary obligation. “If the protection of the constitution confirms what we have always known that it is a secure right -wing party, then (…) we are duty as the defenders of democracy and constitution to seriously examine all possibilities,” said Klingbeil at the SPD Brandenburg State Party Congress in Cottbus. “It is our duty to use all the means that the constitution gives us to protect our constitution from the enemies of democracy.” He emphasized: “This is a historical mission that we have.”
The demand for the initiation of a prohibition procedure against the AfD had become louder after the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had classified the party as secured right -wing extremist. However, due to the legal approach of the AfD, the classification is initially on ice. At the request of the Federal Government, Bundestag or Federal Council, the Federal Constitutional Court would have to decide on a party ban. Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) sees the calls “very skeptical” using an AfD ban.
Brandenburg’s Prime Minister points out challenges
Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) also spoke out for the examination of a prohibition procedure, but pointed out high hurdles. “It will be a long, a rocky, difficult political and legal path,” he said at the state party conference. It must also be clarified – if courts confirmed the classification – how to deal with civil servants who were committed to the AfD. It is just as important to conduct the argument “with right -wing extremists”.
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