After a part has been classified as an extremist -right extremist organization by the intelligence authorities, a survey underlines that 48% of the Germans want to ban subtitles, while 37% are contrary. Half of the Germans are in favor of a ban on alternative to Germany (AFD) after the party has been officially classified as an extremist organization of the right by the federal intelligence authorities.
According to a survey conducted by the Isa Research Institute, published in the Bild Am Sonntag newspaper this weekend, 48% of the Germans support the prohibition of operation of the caption. Another 37% position themselves against, while 15% could not answer.
The investigation was released two days after the Department of Federal Contestration (BFV) ranked the national Afd as a “proven right -wing extremist organization” which threatens democracy.
Previously, only a few AFD regional directories had received this classification, which allows the intelligence authorities to monitor their members closely and can strengthen actions to ban the caption.
In making the decision, the BFV stressed that the party violates human dignity and democracy trying to exclude population groups, such as immigrants, of equal participation in society.
Most of the Germans agree with this classification, according to the Sapian Institute. The same survey stressed that 61% of the Germans agreed with the categorization of Afd as a “right” organization
As for the effects of a possible prohibition on Afd, 35% of respondents said they believe that such a measure would strengthen democracy, while 39% underline that democracy would compromise. About 16% think that there would be no effect, while 10% could not answer.
AFD trajectory
Founded in 2013, initially as an acronym euro-euro of liberal trend, AFD quickly waiting for the ultra-right, especially after the 2015-2016 refugees crisis. With radically anti-immigration positions, the caption is regularly accused of hosting the neo-Nazis.
However, the party has grown in the last decade. The caption managed to form his first federal bench in 2017. In 2021, he underwent a slight decline, but resumed his trajectory upwards in the last federal elections of February, bending his electoral support and forming the second largest bench of deputies in Parliament (Bundestag). Currently, AFD is also the strongest political party in opinion polls, with about 26% support among the Germans.
The AFD is particularly strong in the East. In a triple state election in the region in 2024, the caption ended first in Turínia and second in Saxony and Brandenburg – in the latter it came to win the largest share of voters between 16 and 24 years old.
However, the growth of AFD in recent years has not yet been translated into power to the subtitle, since all traditional parts have avoided the ally with the acronym to compose state governments.
The recent siege of the AFD activities of this week has caused criticism throughout the Atlantic, with the members of the Trump government, who have shown the repudiation against the classification of the party as a “extremist” of (BFV). But not all the ultra -Justi movements all over the world sympathizes with AFD and its growing advertising strategy. In 2024, the French Marine Le Pen movement has even broken with AFD in the European Parliament after a German MEP of the subtitles that relativize the history of an ancient Nazi organization.
Is AFD prohibition possible?
A Besi procedure is a judicial analysis of the fact that the party acts unconstitutionally. According to article 21 of the fundamental law (the Constitution of Germany), “the parties are unconstitutional which, due to their objectives or the behavior of their followers, aim to undermine or abolish the basic democratic order or endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany”.
In this case, it is up to the Federal Constitutional Court to decide whether a political party can be dissolved. The federal government and the two chambers of the German Parliament can present a petition in this regard and, if the Court agrees to analyze the request, a long judicial trial begins.
Political analysts have different opinions on the probability of success of an attempt to ban the acronym. Hendrik Cremer of the German Human Rights Institute in Berlin believes that the ban is urgent and can be successful. “If you look closely at Afd, I think you will have to come to the conclusion that the conditions for a ban have been satisfied,” he said to DW.
Azim Semizoglu, a specialist in constitutional law at the University of Leipzig, is more skeptical. In his opinion, the AFD classification as “right extremist” by the internal intelligence agency does not automatically guarantee a prohibition of success, he said before DW.
To date, only two parts have been officially prohibited in the post -war German history. Both cases occurred in the former territory of Western Germany. The German Communist Party (KPD), for example, was dissolved in 1956, although it had gained representation in the country’s parliament. The same happened with the Socialist Party of the Reich (SRP) openly neo -Nazi in 1952. In the case of the KPD, the Court removed its political mandates and prohibited the foundation of replacement organizations.
JPS (OTS, DW)
Source: Terra
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