German Lawyers: Ban on Far-Right AfD 'Likely Successful'
The 3,000-page opinion cites more than 2.5 million posts and 2,500 pieces of evidence to argue the party is unconstitutional.
- On Thursday, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte , a German civil rights NGO, released a 3,000-page legal opinion concluding the Alternative für Deutschland violates Germany's Basic Law.
- Authors argue previous assessments by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution examined the party too narrowly, prompting the team to analyze over 2.9 million social-media posts and 77,000 parliamentary documents.
- The report identifies more than 2,500 pieces of evidence showing the AfD seeks what it terms "exclusion, denigration and far-reaching legal disadvantage" against Muslims, foreigners, and asylum seekers.
- SPD MP Saskia Esken and Green Party co-chair Britta Haßelmann are calling for ban proceedings, arguing the report dispels prior fears that a constitutional case would fail.
- Despite concluding the AfD violates constitutional order, the report notes insufficient evidence of an "essential affinity with National Socialism," while opponents fear an unsuccessful ban attempt could strengthen the party.
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Can’t Beat Them, Ban Them: Globalist NGO Report Attempts to Reignite AfD Ban Debate, Again * The Gateway Pundit * by Robert Semonsen
Germany’s globalist ruling establishment—increasingly unpopular at home—is once again flirting with the most anti-democratic weapon in its arsenal: banning the…
Germany: AfD Ban Debated–Again
Germany is once again debating the possibility of banning Alternative for Germany (AfD). This time, the push comes not from a court ruling, nor from a direct government decision, but from an extensive legal report produced by the NGO Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF). The organisation, whose name (ironically) translates as ‘Society for Civil Rights,’ argues that the party is unconstitutional as per Article 21(2) of Germany’s Basic Law. The …
The efforts to put an AfD ban proceedings to an end have been largely halted. An expert report, which ascertains the Federal Party's unconstitutionality, is now rekindling the debate. Von Torben Lehning.
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