« She is actually too big for a ban » – DiePresse.com
According to « The Guardian », the German Chancellor Merz faces a political tightrope walk. The AfD is already too great for a ban, says the « Tages-Anzeiger » in Switzerland and « Corriere della Sera » in Italy writes that the new coalition has to provide answers.
For demands for a ban on the AfD due to the classification of the party as secure right -wing extremist by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV), newspapers write on Saturday:
« The Guardian » (Guardian):
« Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that there was no political influence on the assessment of the protection of the constitution, while the AfD claims the opposite. But the step puts the new conservative government of Friedrich Merz under great pressure, as well as Faeser’s social democratic colleagues, the junior partners in the new coalition, which should take up their work next Tuesday.
In addition to the countless other challenges he has to cope, Merz will now have to decide whether the AfD should be banned and, if so, how this should be achieved, which is a highly precarious political tightrope walk.
Migration, Ukraine, Trump and a ailing economy are just a few of the problems that he also has to tackle with urgency. The AfD has risen the growing dissatisfaction with regard to these and other topics, which was exacerbated by the months of political standstill after the collapse of the previous government. «
« Tages-Anzeiger » (Zurich):
“The prohibition of the right -wing extremist NPD once failed because, according to the court, it was too small and insignificant to endanger democracy. The AfD could now be the other way around: it is actually too great for a ban.
More than 10 million Germans chose the AfD in the last election; According to surveys, this is currently even the strongest party in the country – on par with the Union or just in front of it. Many of their voters are not right -wing extremists themselves; They just no longer trust the other parties to solve their problems. They can no longer be put off by the stigma ‘right -wing extremist’, which has been politically fatal in Germany for a long time.
The AfD must be ‘go away’ with better politics instead of ‘betting away’ instead of ‘betting away’, says a majority at the CDU, CSU and FDP. Many at the SPD and the Greens see it immediately. They rightly turn that a ban would not solve the basic problem: that many Germans no longer trust the ‘old parties’ and ‘the state’. The idea that these people would choose the CDU or SPD again as soon as the AfD is prohibited is abstruse. «
« Corriere della sera » (Milan):
« It is undisputed that the party offers every reason to be classified as extremist. The radicalization was carried out in full consciousness by its leading politicians, starting with Alice Weidel. But neither a secret service report nor its marginalization in the Bundestag will defeat the AfD. As Shakespeare said: » The error is not in our stars, but in ourselves. ‘
Without concrete answers to the new government coalition, the concerns and fears of the citizens, especially the illegal immigration, it will be difficult to stop the influx for the AfD. This is above all a test for the SPD, which seems to be considered on this question to slow down the new chancellor. « (APA/dpa)
