AfD before ban? Now the Bundestag is deciding!
AfD before ban? Now the Bundestag is deciding!
The Bundestag faces a weighty decision that the German political landscape could change sustainably. It will be debated for the first time for the first time about the ban on the Alternative (AfD). This application was initiated by a group of MPs from the ranks of the CDU/CSU, the Left Party, the Greens and the SPD. Interestingly, at least ten MPs from these factions support the application.
Behind the advance is the Saxon CDU MP Marco Wanderwitz. He worked on it for almost a year and tried to support support. Now he has finally completed the necessary five percent of MPs to bring in an overlapping concern to the Bundestag. The initiative received special explosiveness from the recent election results in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. There the AfD had achieved impressive around 30 percent of the vote.
political reactions and the legal foundation
According to a report in the world, the applicants argue that the AfD wants to abolish the free-democratic basic order with an “actively combative-aggressive attitude”. According to the previous case law of the Federal Constitutional Court, this condition must be fulfilled for a party ban. If the prohibition is not enforced, the parliamentarians require that the AfD is "excluded from state financing". Without this financing, the party would be almost incapable of acting.
In the Bundestag, it remains unclear whether a majority can actually be found for the ban on the ban. While MPs made themselves behind the application from almost all factions, the FDP is left out. Katja Adler, MP of the FDP, expressed substantial criticism. In their opinion, the application seems as if the supporters were more afraid of democracy than protecting democracy.
historical and international comparisons
The historical context is also interesting. In the past, the federal government and the Bundestag failed twice to ban the NPD (today: home). This was justified with the lack of so-called potentiality-there was no real danger that the party could actually abolish the freedom-democratic basic order. At the AfD, however, the applicants see it differently.Germany is therefore unique in a western comparison. It is the only western country in which you are seriously trying to ban an important opposition party. If this attempt is successful, the Federal Republic would take another unique selling point in the political landscape of western democracies.
For a detailed consideration of the Fall See the report on jungifreich.de .
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