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Germany designates AfD as right-wing extremist organization, citing threat to democracy
(www.euronews.com)
AFD should be banned, it's a frickin threat to our democracy
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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It's amazing that it got this far, and that American politics had to get so bad that they've now realized it. Germany was about to repeat history itself even with the laws in place. Deutschland is supposed to know best.
Quick remainder that the AfD is supported by foreign countries like Russia and China (and Trump and Musk).
A former aide to an AfD politician is being charged of espionage for China
Germany's federal prosecutor's office on Tuesday pressed espionage charges against the former aide of Maximilian Krah, a far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician, and a Chinese national, both of whom are accused of working for Chinese intelligence agencies.
Simultaneously, three more people were arrested in the western city of Düsseldorf and the town of Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, also on suspicion of spying for Beijing.
The comments on the article are truly an example of justifying being a shitty person as "politics". It's okay to discriminate and harm others as long as a politician does it first!
Is this just a meaningless label or are there actually consequences for this?
I'll try to summarize.
Germany's highest court can ban parties that want to dismantle democracy. But that process can only be initiated by the federal government, the federal parliament or a majority of the state parliaments. NOT by the court itself.
Before the election, there was a group of MPs spanning over almost all parties who advocated to initiate said process, but they couldn't form a majority. Other MPs and the government had argued to wait for the report that just now came out and confirmed AfD to be enemies of the democratic order.
So now they don't have any excuses, really. They are morally, but not legally, obligated to ask the court to ban AfD. Said court has signalled in the past that they have enough evidence and that they are eager to start. Whether or not it will happen is not clear, but it has never been more likely.
That sounds promising!
It means that the hurdles for the national secret service (Verfassungsschutz) to carry out measures of surveillance are lowered.
The afd in Germany and the fvd in the Netherlands
I am surprised, and happy.
Germany Relitigates Effects Of Nazism
GREON? I dont understand.