Banning Alternative für Deutschland

The dispute over how to deal with the AfD threatens to become a burden for the future coalition. The demand from the SPD for a banning procedure is not only met by incomprehension in the Union. Also among the Social Democrats there are strong differences.

Banning Alternative für Deutschland

Source.I fear they will try to ban Alternative für Deutschland. I spent many months last year saying this would not happen, and my reasons were fourfold: 1) Key figures in the major parties, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the SPD and Friedrich Merz of the CDU, opposed banning the AfD. 2) Marco Wanderwitz’s much-publicised initiative to ban the AfD was therefore a doomed movement among Bundestag backbenchers, overhyped by idiotic German jour…