“AFD is against democracy in Germany, it must be prohibited, our history teaches us” | EUROtoday

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Berlin – “Alternative Für Deutschland is the greatest threat to our democracy after Hitler and must be banned”. He has no doubts, Carmen Wegge, deputy of the SPD. Already within the final legislature he had promoted, with Marco Wanderwitz of the CDU, a parliamentary movement to ask the Constitutional Court to ban Afd. The doc had been signed by over 110 deputies of various events, however the early dissolution of the Bundestag stopped every little thing. On May 2, nonetheless, the Office for the safety of the Constitution (BFV) modified the classification of Afd from “suspicious case” of proper extremism to “case ascertained” and incompatible with democracy. The get together appealed and the BFV has determined to droop reclassification till the executive court docket is pronounced.

What does this suspension imply?

In a state of regulation, AFD naturally has the suitable to intent authorized motion towards the brand new analysis of the BFV. But the BFV has come to a transparent judgment, for good causes. I’m certain that AFD won’t achieve success in court docket. The Administrative Court of Cologne and the Superior Administrative Court of the Northern Rhine-See have already determined in favor of the BFV within the causes towards the earlier classification (the one of many suspicion, editor’s notice). For me it is very important underline that the suspension doesn’t imply a change within the content material of the brand new analysis.

Will you strive once more to ask for the intervention of the Constitutional Court?

Yes. I believe now we have to do it. All of us members of Parliament are obliged to contact the Constitutional Court. Not solely does the Bundestag have the chance to do it, additionally the federal government and the Bundesrat, the Länder Chamber can do it. We need to go to the Constitutional Court as a result of options Für Deutschland is the best risk to our democracy after Hitler.

So the Bundestag, the Bundesrat and the federal government ought to take motion collectively?

It could be the perfect factor.

The accusations don’t appear to be taken on voters: AFD in some polls alongside CDU-CSU as the primary get together in Germany. His placing to the ban on what can or not it’s used for?

We are going through a state of affairs that we all know from our historical past in Germany and the explanation why there’s the opportunity of banning a celebration is exactly due to our historical past, as a result of we all know that there could be a get together that strikes within the democratic system, however that wishes to struggle democracy. The individuals who wrote our Constitution thought that if this example reappears, it’s essential to have a software to cope with it. And this software is the ban. We have a celebration that wishes to erase democracy in Germany, I do know there are numerous individuals who vote for it, however that is the way in which now we have to go.