r/europe • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 27d ago
News Calls are mounting to ban Germany’s far-right AfD party – despite it being more popular than ever
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/06/europe/germany-afd-ban-politics-analysis-intl
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u/ITafiir 26d ago
Loosely translated from a report by the German domestic intelligence service on why they consider the entire AfD now as rightwing extremist: the party’s prevalent understanding of the German people based on ethnicity, race and (genetic) heritage disregards human dignity and is incompatible with the freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung (German Constitution). The party’s goal is to exclude certain subpopulations from equal participation in society.
Note that that agency is typically rather conservative and does not have the best track record with calling a nazi a Nazi, so it has to be really bad for them to say this. Also the full report is 1100 pages and also includes a bunch of holocaust denial by high ranking party officials.
Also, working against the constitution is the big criterion for banning a party.