Germany’s Social Democratic Party says first legal steps should be taken to ban the far-right AfD party as unconstitutional. Conservative lawmakers are less keen on the idea.
A number of Germany’s conservative lawmakers have called for a cautious approach after the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior coalition partner, on Sunday passed a motion calling for preparations to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The debate on whether to ban the AfD, which forms the strongest opposition force in parliament, has gained momentum after it was reclassified by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency in May as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” group — an assessment that is now under court review after a legal challenge by the party.
Banning thought never works. Find why people are upset. Analyse it. Find a solution.
They can do more than one thing though. Germany should be able to treat both the root cause as well as the acute symptoms.
Agree. However, banning a party, who represents a huge portion of the country is just going to make things worse.
The party exists for probably only certain issues for most people. Not far right issues at all. However, they are also covering those base issues, and the other parties are not.
So, find these issues. Discuss them honestly. Find a solution.
Yeah, but in the meantime ban them because otherwise the accumulate power and that makes it even harder to change the underlying systems.
Just ask the US how it’s going for US act when you can…
It will make things significantly better in the short term.
Their entire infrastructure would immediately crumble. Nothing could be re-used. All successor parties would be banned automatically.
This means basically all their high ranking members are permanently banned from joining or collaborating with any future political party.
I don’t think I need to elaborate why this would set far right organizations back significantly.
Well you don’t ban the thought you ban them from assuming political positions and from taking government funding. They may have nazi thoughts which you can’t stop them from having but you don’t need to finance their plots to overthrow democracy and murder political opponents and ethnically cleanse the country.
Of course a .lm account would advise against banning that fascist party. A process that is, btw., completely within the the lines of democracy.