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5d ago

Majority of German MPs Signal Support for AfD Ban as Extremism Classification Is Frozen

Party divisions coupled with legal hurdles leave efforts to ban the AfD uncertain despite parliamentary support.

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Die AfD-Fraktion im Bundestag

Overview

  • A Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung survey shows 124 of 176 responding non-AfD deputies would back initiating a ban procedure in the Bundestag.
  • The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s “securely right-extremist” designation was paused by Cologne’s administrative court after the AfD filed a legal challenge.
  • Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the CDU/CSU parliamentary group reject a ban, insisting the AfD should be countered through political outvoting.
  • The Greens and Left Party are almost unanimous in favor of a ban, the SPD offers conditional support and most Union MPs oppose or declined to take a position.
  • Successfully outlawing a party requires six of eight judges in the Federal Constitutional Court to agree, a high bar given the AfD’s nearly quarter-share of Bundestag seats.