The question of whether the ban can be enabled Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) or disqualify their leaders, investigative media have been circulating around the country since last week Corrective It was revealed that officials from this party discussed with neo-Nazis a plan to deport two million foreigners and even naturalized persons of non-German origin. The answer is yes because There are legal and institutional ways appropriate to request illegalization if a party follows unconstitutional purposes. A group of 50 professors from the University of Halle (east) called on the political class to “lift” this ban. But others warn that this could be counterproductive; because the process will take years and the party can play the necessary role. victimization We are up against the establishment and the final decision is uncertain.
AfD, Second power in the country in terms of voting intention and first in the east GermanyIt is the site of three regional elections in September. Before these elections, the AfD will have a big appointment before the polls. european elections. “The process of banning a party must be supported by at least one of the three bodies competent to do so, whether it is the federal government, the lower house or the upper house of Parliament (Bundestag and Bundesrat),” the political scientist reminds EL. PERIÓDICO.Hajo Funke from Berlin. Before formalizing an application Constitutional Court — the body with the power to outlaw a party at the national level — and that could take years to resolve, says the retired professor at the Free University of Berlin. “It won’t come on time this election year and probably not for national elections scheduled for 2025,” continues Funke, author of several books on the German far right. One of them focused on its regional leader in Thuringia: Björn Höcke, leader of the most radical wing. Funke unhesitatingly describes this politician, who could be the winner of his ‘Land’ in September, as a ‘fascist’. The campaign asking the Bundestag to disqualify Höcke was noticed within 24 hours 1.2 million signatures. According to Article 18 of the Constitution Constitutional rights, including the right to vote and be elected, may be taken away To all who attack Magna Carta. “There is no doubt that Höcke is involved in this. But there is also no doubt that a solution cannot be expected within a few months,” the political scientist warns.
conspiracy meeting
According to Funke, the real question is why the initiation of this process was not considered before. The aims and actions of the training were described as “extremist” by the terrorist organization. Internal secret services in many German states “it is as obviously unconstitutional as the conspiratorial purposes of the meeting revealed by the correction.” “Plan”re-immigration“It has a hostile attitude not only towards foreigners in the country (about 10 million), but also towards citizens of non-German origin (about 22 million of the country’s 83 million inhabitants) and their families. The AfD is politically isolated and his plan is at present impracticable except by extreme imagination. “Trying to move this forward, civil war. And you, as a Spaniard, know what I mean,” Funke emphasizes.
Conspiracy meeting took place potsdamIt is a neighboring city to Berlin. AfD members and representatives of neo-Nazis attended the call Union of Values –conservative opposition movement testing the establishment of a new radical party– and also the leader of the party Austrian ID Martin Sellner. The chosen place reminds Wannsee ConferenceThe place planned by the Nazi regime in 1942″final solution“or deportation and extermination of millions of Jews. These are parallels that arise not just from geographical proximity but from plans to deport millions of people.
“The plan drawn up in Potsdam is not just a terrible possibility. Attack on the Constitution He warned the Federation of Judges, the Lawyers Association and other sister organizations in a joint statement. “Any fantasy mass exile In Germany this must be fought with all available legal and political tools,” the note continues.
co-chairman of the party, Alice WeidelHe parted ways with his advisor and former MP Roland Hartwig, person who attended the Potsdam meeting. His partner in the two-headed presidency Timo Chrupalla, says he “can’t remember” whether he attended a similar event in Düsseldorf a few years ago. Other AfD members present at the Potsdam meeting also defended these plans. According to Bernd Baumann, general secretary of the AfD, the use of this term is legitimate and “repatriation of immigrants through legal procedures“.
Shocked reactions were reflected in signature collection and on the streets. In recent days, tens of thousands of people have held demonstrations against the far right in Berlin, Leipzig (east), Cologne and Essen (west) and Potsdam, with the support of Berlin. social democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and her Foreign Minister Green Annalena BaerbockBoth are residents of that city, which is the capital of the ‘Land’ of Brandenburg.
Failed outlawing of NPD
There is currently not enough political support for the request for legalization in the Constitutional Court, based in Karlsruhe. happened Positive statements from Scholz’s social democracy or Green partners but the third ally of the governing coalition Liberal Party finds this ‘counterproductive’. There is no support from the conservative opposition, the leading force in voting intentions, for similar reasons.
The criteria for banning a match are very strict. Outlawing marginal or local neo-Nazi organizations is a relatively common occurrence and is the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However Karlsruhe has banned only two matches nationwide so far –successor to the communist and Nazi NSDAP, both in the 50s–. However, there have been two attempts to make it illegal. National Democratic Party (NPD)The main political branch of neo-Nazism.
First initiative supported by the then Chancellor’s Government Angela Merkel and Parliament collapsed in 2003 because insider testimonies police officers who are also the instigators of the NPD. A second petition, supported by the Upper House, or Bundesrat, was rejected by the TC in 2017 on the grounds that the party did not have the “necessary weight” to achieve its goals or was “acting against the State”. The NPD had barely 6,000 members and had zero representation in parliament. NPD has been saved by its fragility, but there is currently no consensus against AfDIn 2017, it became the first and only formation of its spectrum to enter the Bundestag.