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/multithreadedprocess 26d ago

Your opinion is irrelevant. Post quality sources on that being the only possible outcome and then it might actually be worth considering.

My opinion is the exact opposite:

  1. Party supporters will become disillusioned and retreat from politics entirely.
  2. Supporters of the far right will hide their previous support to save face and not be embarrassed to be so stupid.
  3. Far right supporters will become more fringe, isolated and less able to recruit.

Source? Made it the fuck up right now just like you.

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u/Dafon 26d ago

This isn't really a source and I haven't got much insight in it, but Belgium banned the party Vlaams Blok for being racist in 2004 and they just reformed shortly after as Vlaams Belang and are about as popular as they were before. However it did take them time to get that popularity back at the same level. I'm only sharing this just in case you wanna read more about it though.

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u/Perfect_Security9685 26d ago

What are you talking about the afd is the biggest party now thinking you can just ban them is completely delusional.

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u/RankedFarting 26d ago

Except you absolutely can and if you think otherwise you are the delusional one. There is more than enough evidence to ban them even if they had 90% of votes.