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

  • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
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    I understood the post you are replying to as saying “what will AfD voters do when their party is banned?”.

    In the case of the Nazis, we don’t know because their party was never banned. We don’t know what would have happened if the Nazi party had been banned.

    I would be interested to know if we have historical cases of far-right parties that could have won the elections but were banned before they had the chance.

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      Well, let’s hope we’re about to see that. My guess is mass protests all over Germany and even more massive counter protests right next to them.