Bundestag will debate initiating AfD ban proceedings

The necessary number of MPs now support a ban on the AfD, so that a corresponding motion is now being discussed in the Bundestag. More than 10 MPs each from the SPD, CDU/CSU, Greens and Left are involved.

The Bundestag will discuss a ban on the AfD party. Enough Bundestag members support a corresponding motion, so that it will now be put on the agenda, as the Welt reports. The cross-party motion by members of the SPD, CDU/CSU, Greens and Left has reached the required number of supporters of five percent of the members of the Bundestag. This number currently stands at 37 members.

According to Die Welt, at least 10 MPs from each of the four factions support the motion. The motion stipulates that the Bundestag applies to the Federal Constitutional Court for a ban on the AfD. In order for the party ban proceedings requested by the Bundestag to take place in Karlsruhe, a simple majority in the Bundestag would be necessary. One thing is clear now: There will be a debate and vote on the matter. The MPs involved cite AfD demands for a "millions-fold remigration" of migrants as justification for their proposed ban, among other things.

Integrated into the application to ban the party is also an auxiliary application that calls for the withdrawal of party funding from the AfD. If the court rejects a ban but finds that the AfD is unconstitutional, then, according to the applicants, the Federal Constitutional Court should at least cut off the party's funding. This application has been drafted for months. On Friday, a final draft was finally drawn up.

However, a majority for the plan is considered unlikely at the moment. Talks are currently ongoing with the FDP faction. However, according to reports, not a single FDP MP currently supports the motion. No attempt was made to win over members of the BSW to the plan. However, the CDU/CSU and SPD, as well as the Left and the Greens, also have reservations about the motion to ban the plan.

In the paper, supporters of the motion accuse the AfD of taking "militant" action against the "free and democratic basic order". In addition, the party is agitating against the guarantee of human dignity in Article 1 of the Basic Law. The Bundestag is to consider the motion for the first time next week or the week after. The factions in the Council of Elders and the Presidium of Parliament will then decide whether the motion should first be discussed in the committees or immediately in the plenary session.

Source: Apollo News