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Steinmeier Warns Of Growing Threats To German Democracy
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned on Sunday that the rise of the far right and increasing antisemitism posed a growing threat to Germany's democracy. "One hundred and seven years after 1918, the year the first German Republic was proclaimed, our liberal democracy is under pressure," he said at his official Berlin residence Bellevue Palace.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier is in favour of a hard fight against the party. His speech is likely to follow suit, but is neither conclusively argued nor compatible with his position as Head of State.
German Federal President: "A Party Ban Is the Ultima Ratio of Defensive Democracy"
German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) took the occasion of November 9—a date Germany marks as the proclamation of the first German Republic in 1918, the pogroms against Jews of 1938, and the start of German reunification in 1989—as an opportunity to circumspectly accuse populist right-wing Alternative für Deutschland of extremism, antisemitism, and wanting to overthrow the democratic order. Without ever mentioning the party by n…
The Federal President appeals to the defenceful democracy. The political forces of the centre must also fulfil their responsibilities, he warns.
On the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of the Wall, the Progromnacht and the proclamation of the Republic for the defence of democracy and freedom in Germany, Federal President Steinmeier said that they had never been so attacked in reunited Germany.
Without ever mentioning its name, the German Federal President notes that the party ban can be "an expression of the defence of democracy"
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