An alliance of organizations launches a campaign in Germany to demand the ban of the far-right party AfD

The campaign claims the match is “unconstitutional” and argues that the ban is “not only possible, but also politically necessary”

BERLIN, June 17 (DPA/EP) –

An alliance of organizations launched a campaign this Monday to demand the ban of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), accusing it of being “unconstitutional”, more than a week after the party was the second most voted in the European elections.

The director of the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, Jens-Christian Wagner, has stated that a lesson from the time of Nazi Germany is “that anti-constitutional parties must be deprived of the opportunity to abuse democracy to abolish it.”

Thus, the campaign ‘Let’s defend human dignity: ban the AfD now’, aims to achieve a parliamentary majority in the coming weeks in favor of a motion in the Bundestag. In addition, the organizers have announced a series of protests against the party, also at the national congress that will be held at the end of the month in Essen (west).

The banning of the AfD has been repeatedly debated in recent months in the country, although critics of this possibility point out that the procedures would be very long and the meaning of the decision that, ultimately, the party should take is unknown. Constitutional Court. In this sense, they have also shown concern about the impact of banning a party with great support from voters.

However, the campaign launched calling for its ban has argued that “a ban on the AfD is not only possible, but also politically necessary,” according to the German news agency DPA. For this reason, they have stressed that the measure could end the organizational structure of the training, deprive it of public financing and take away its legitimacy.

“In recent years, the AfD has become a party dominated by far-right forces. It spreads racist nationalist ideas, mocks democracy and attacks the rule of law,” explained sources from the campaign, promoted after the information published by the media ‘Correctiv’ about a meeting of far-right forces in Potsdam in November 2023, which was also attended by representatives of the AfD and in which plans to expel migrants and descendants of migrants from Germany were discussed.