5mo ago

Draft AfD ban proposal submitted to German Parliament.

www.tagesschau.de Entwurf für AfD-Verbotsantrag liegt dem Bundestag vor

Die AfD soll durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht überprüft werden - so will es der Entwurf für einen Verbotsantrag mehrerer Abgeordneter. Er liegt nun dem Bundestag vor.

Couldn't find any English source. Main relevance, politically, being that now the Bundestag will have to discuss it, and they will have to vote on it, one way or the other, no more ducking away.

Only the constitutional court can ban parties, and only the Bundestag, Bundesrat, and the government can ask the constitutional court to do so.

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Not banning the NPD because it was small and "posed no credible threat to democracy" was the stupidest decision out constitutional court ever made.
First it was to small to be dangerous, now it's to big to fail.
- Or alternatively "to big to be banned, because that would mean that the voices from 20%(or something like that) of the population would be ignored."
  Absolute bullshit.
  
  That's a moronic idea anway.
  Yes we can perfectly well ban an anti-democratic party even when 20% or more are voting for them. Why wouldn't we? Just like we can perfectly well prosecute 20%+ of the population when they actually commit crimes.
  Sorry, but democracy DOES NOT mean that illegal actions are permitted because enough people agree (and a minority is also far from "enough"), just like democracy -contrary to what populism wants us to believe nowadays- DOES NOT mean lies (nicely called "alternative facts as an euphemism) become truths now just because enough people believe in them.