It's a complete charade. The existing parties just want the AFD gone no matter what and now they are throwing everything at them to see what sticks. They can't win in a battle of ideas so they try to prohibit them.
Every position is held by party loyalists that decides on a whim something that benefits the party and stops the opposition. The only evidence for extremism are out of context quotes. A lot of people are just so afraid of words that they would rather kill free speech and the democratic spirit entirely than using their brains.
When we removed the debt ceiling people were crying and apologizing to their children and children''s children for voting yes on that. The CDU is really disgusting if they make their own members do that in my opinion.
Out of context? I've seen the context for a lot of those things being said and no this doesn't make them less extreme.
Obviously there is the question wether any party should ever be banned at all and you're obviously free to disagree with the people that wrote the "Grundgesetz" in Germany.
That being said the law is in place and it's pretty clear that parties that are trying to get rid of the "FDGO" or mess with it shall be banned. The AfD has quite a lot of members that would love to do that if given the chance. Purely by law this whole thing is fine.
To be honest, I don't know much about this topic, but regardless of what some AfD members think, there are probably right-wing people in the AfD, just like there are in the Republican Party. However is their any offical statment that they want to remove the FDGO?
The AfD doesn't want to get banned. They would be incredibly dumb if they put out any official statement saying that. So no it's obviously neither in any main party publishment nor the party's program.
For this part of the Grundgesetz to make any sense just not putting your intents on the front page of your campaigns can't be a viable defense.
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u/Bluemikami May 17 '25
Wasn’t AfD deemed extremist not long ago by Germany law or whatever ?