Tacitus
3 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]
That is why we have courts who decide what still follows the law and what does now.
And rightists can sue again this description or e.g. fascist. Of course courts may also decide that based on public statements from the person in question, this may actual count as a factual description (e.g. Höcke).
Ultimately this will be decided by the German Constitutional Court.
Before that another court will decide whether or not the recognition by the Verfassungsschutz is justified.
The AfD are not victims here. They just reap the consequences of their actions. There have been man voices even inside the party who have warned in the last few years that the party was attracting and promoting the wrong kind of people. Their two past leaders Petry and Meuthen wanted to against those extremists, but ended up disgraced and leaving the party.
And if that is not enough, every time the AfD gets a victory or some influence, they immediately use it to confirm those fears. That disgraceful performance by the senior president of the Landtag in Thuringia comes to mind.
True. And if the AfD is banned, it is not because the Court decides that they don't like their pension plan, but because they are found to be actively working against the democratic order of Germany.
Thing is that is also such a blah-wishy-washy paragraph, free for the taking for every political uses!
That is why we have courts who decide what still follows the law and what does now.
Leftists love to call Rightists, or anybody not being left, as Nazis!
And rightists can sue again this description or e.g. fascist. Of course courts may also decide that based on public statements from the person in question, this may actual count as a factual description (e.g. Höcke).
and who decides which is an undemocratic party?
Ultimately this will be decided by the German Constitutional Court.
Before that another court will decide whether or not the recognition by the Verfassungsschutz is justified.
The AfD are not victims here. They just reap the consequences of their actions. There have been man voices even inside the party who have warned in the last few years that the party was attracting and promoting the wrong kind of people. Their two past leaders Petry and Meuthen wanted to against those extremists, but ended up disgraced and leaving the party.
And if that is not enough, every time the AfD gets a victory or some influence, they immediately use it to confirm those fears. That disgraceful performance by the senior president of the Landtag in Thuringia comes to mind.
And don't liking their opinions can never be a reason for a ban
True. And if the AfD is banned, it is not because the Court decides that they don't like their pension plan, but because they are found to be actively working against the democratic order of Germany.