A ban on the AfD has been discussed for a long time. An application for this is now in the starting blocks. But critics have come forward from within the ranks of the SPD.
Berlin – After their recent successes in the last state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, there is not much time left for them AfDto be happy. According to a report, individual MPs from the SPD, CDU/CSU, Greens and Left have drawn up a motion that could mean the end of the right-wing party. But there are contradictions within the SPD. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil sees no political task in the matter and SPD politicians from Saxony-Anhalt see potential in it to convince even more people of the right-wing party.
Now at least 37 MPs from the SPD, CDU/CSU, Greens and Left have agreed to a report by the World According to a group proposal for a ban on the AfD. The aim is to call on the Federal Constitutional Court to classify the right-wing party as unconstitutional and to introduce a ban on the AfD. It is said that at least ten MPs from the respective parliamentary groups support him. Such a ban has been discussed for a long time and has been considered a bad idea by some, including a constitutional judge.
SPD politicians express concerns about the application for a ban on the AfD
The Bundestag should soon vote on the procedure. The application stipulates that the Federal Constitutional Court should determine that the AfD is unconstitutional and will also be excluded from state funding.
But this demand is met with reservations within the parliamentary groups. Critics of the project have their say within the SPD. This is what SPD politician Gesine Schwan said Daily Mirrorthat such a motion would be “politically counterproductive” and could “drive even more citizens into the arms of the AfD”.
Clear evidence is needed for a ban procedure
The chairmen of the SPD Saxony-Anhalt, Juliane Kleemann and Andreas Schmidt, also expressed concerns to the daily newspaper. Accordingly, an AfD ban procedure must be “based on a legally secure procedure”. The constitutional violations in the constituent session of the Thuringian state parliament would not alone be enough to successfully implement the project.
An AfD ban procedure can only be effective before the Federal Constitutional Court if “comprehensive evidence” is available. This must clearly prove “that the party as a whole is systematically working against the free-democratic basic order,” Kleemann and Schmidt are quoted as saying.
Klingbeil aims for victory in the political fight against the AfD
For SPD leader Lars Klingbeil, however, this matter is not a political question for the time being. In conversation with the German press agency He said: “The assessment is not a political one, but rather a legal one.” This is initially the task of the experts from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. And if they conclude that the AfD poses a threat to the state and coexistence in Germany, it will be time for them to “become politically active.”
Klingbeil also sees his task as leading the political fight against the AfD. The SPD’s electoral success in Brandenburg showed that it could be defeated with courage, a clear stance and good communication.
In order to ban a party, it must be proven in the process that the AfD is aggressively fighting against the constitution. The discussion about a ban on the AfD picked up speed again after the inaugural session of the Thuringian state parliament turned into a scandal. In Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, the party’s regional associations are considered right-wing extremist. (dpa/gel)
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