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More than 100 German legislators back motion to ban far-right AfD (www.yahoo.com)

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More than 100 members of the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, have made application for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), conservative Bundestag member Marco Wanderwitz said on Wednesday.

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully Germany treads lightly. A simple ban that fails to address why AfD is gaining ground is going to end up creating a martyr complex if left unchecked.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

Any ban of a political party includes "successor" parties/structures. If a large number of politicians from a banned party joined another, that party is likely to get banned too.

It won't fix the issue but it provides room to breathe. A ban is preferable over doing nothing any day of the week.