German AfD party labeled 'extremist' by intelligence agency – DW – 05/02/2025
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The agency cited a "xenophobic, anti-minority, Islamophobic" rhetoric among the reasons for the designation. The label gives authorities more power to investigate the far-right party.

Germany’s spy agency BfV has labeled the entirety of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an extremist entity.

The BfV domestic intelligence agency, which is in charge of safeguarding Germany’s constitutional order, said the announcement comes after an “intense and comprehensive” examination.

“The ethnicity-and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the BfV said on Friday.

Hopefully this inspires the other parties to to start the process to see the AfD banned. I know the report might not look like much, because of how obvious the findings are. But previous attempts at banning them have failed because such an official report was missing. So maybe our political system starts getting its shit together.

As we say in Germany: Hope dies last

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    22 days ago

    but don’t actually have a plan beyond that to get 30% of the voters to not vote for the next party that uses the nazi talking points.

    Last time Germany banned a successful far-right party they tried this, but the new party was also quickly banned. They’re miles ahead of you on this, which makes sense given that the laws were written by people just liberated from the OG Nazis.

    • setsubyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Which “successful far-right party” are you referring to that was banned? The only right-wing party banned by Federal Germany is the SRP, and that one was fairly small. All the other attempts ended in a different resolution (i.e. not a party ban).

      The NSDAP was banned by the Allied Control Council. Denazification was the Allied Control Council too.

      None of this got rid of nazis. The AfD is only the current iteration. For my entire life, there’s always been some right wing extremist party that was big enough to be regularly mentioned on the news. Sometimes they randomly disappear and then another one rises. I even remember cases where one tried to become less extremist and then disappeared as a result of that (e.g. REP).

      I’m all for banning them but it’s been 80 years that WWII ended and we still don’t have a real solution that actually works.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        22 days ago

        You’re right, I actually have that backwards. The SRP, which was banned, was itself a successor to the DRP. Sorry!

        I don’t know if it had any seats, but Wikipedia says there were 10,000 members. Interesting to hear there there’s been more that have been worthy of media coverage since then.

        I’m all for banning them but it’s been 80 years that WWII ended and we still don’t have a real solution that actually works.

        I’m not sure one is even possible. Fascism is primally appealing, and every generation assesses the world from scratch. Unless we merge with AI or stop reproducing or something it will always come back. We just have to keep putting it down.