US EditionAfter AfD Secures Key Court Victory, Pressure to Ban Party Continues
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The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution must withdraw its classification of the Alternative for Germany party as a "confirmed far-right" organization. That is the decision of the Administrative Court in Cologne, but it is not the last word.
In Sensational Preliminary Ruling, Court Prohibits German State From Classifying the AfD as a "Confirmed Right-Wing Extremist" Organisation
In a sensational preliminary ruling, a court has prohibited the German state from classifying the AfD as a "confirmed Right-wing extremist" organisation, saying a "remigration" policy is not inherently unconstitutional.
The Kölner Verwaltungsgericht recognizes unconstitutional tendencies in the AfD, but sees no overall effect. A nationwide party ban remains unlikely. Felix W. Zimmermann, editor-in-chief of Legal Tribune Online, arranges the case.
After AfD Secures Key Court Victory, Pressure to Ban Party Continues
While the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is celebrating a major legal victory, its political opponents have not given up their efforts to get the party banned. Thursday’s court decision by a Cologne court temporarily halts the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)—Germany’s domestic intelligence agency—from branding the party a “confirmed right-wing extremist organization” pending the outcome of the main proceedin…
Verwaltungsgericht Köln stops BfV: AfD no longer classified as right-wing extremist.
For the time being, the AfD must not classify the protection of the Constitution as a secure right-wing extremist. What are the reasons for the judgment? How does the decision affect an AfD ban? Answers to the most important questions.
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