That AFD is classified as a right -wing party in Germany does not decrease voter support
Something that unites most AFD supporters I have met in Germany is the feeling of not counting. And above all: by being told from above what to think and think.
So now the German security service has the constitutional protection (Verfassungsschutz) Explained the entire party Right extrem. Does this mean that AFD can be banned? In theory – yes. But all attempts to prohibit the AfD have so far encountered a patrol of the German Constitutional Court.
The AfD’s departments in Thüringen and Saxony-An content have already been classified as right-wing extremists for several years. This has not led to any major problems for them – on the contrary. In Thüringen, the AfD became the largest party in the state election in 2024.
In his decision says the constitutional protection that the AfD is classified as a right -wing extrem because the party wants to « exclude certain groups from being able to participate in society ».
The security service also writes: « Specifically, the AfD does not consider German citizens with a Muslim background as equal to ethnic Germans. »
Olaf Scholz, who is the Chancellor Chancelling until May 6, Notifies in Die Zeit that he does not recommend that the AfD be banned immediately. This is because all such proposals have so far been declared in violation of the Constitution.
At the same time, it is a fact: AfD has several members who more or less open flirts with Nazism. The most prominent is Björn Höcke, who was sentenced to fines, twice pronounced the Nazi slogan « Everything for Germany ». The party’s EU parliamentarian Maximilian Krah has said that all SS men (the Nazis’ paramilitary group) were not criminals. He is excluded from the party, but showed up to take selfies with party hangers when I was in line to get into AfD’s election start in Halle In February.
AFD has its greatest voter support In former East Germany, where 45 years of communism built up a basic skepticism against government decisions. Now AfD’s chairman Alice Weidel and Tino Krupalla calls the security service’s decision for a « heavy blow to German democracy ».
The extremist stamp will not get any direct follows. Prohibiting a party is a big step to take for a European democracy. It is not possible without extensive debate – where the AfD will do everything to paint themselves to a victim.
So far, it has been a winning strategy.
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