Why the AfD ban proposal is suddenly so controversial
The now apparently finished cross-party motion for an AfD ban, which has been worked on for over a year, has sparked controversy in political Berlin. As things stand, it seems to have little chance of gaining a majority in the Bundestag. Almost all constitutional lawyers who have spoken out in the meantime consider it to be hopeless - because the AfD does not meet the conditions for a party ban. To do so, it would have to fight the free and democratic basic order in an "aggressive and combative" manner.
And so most top politicians fear that the initiative will fail before the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and thus ultimately benefit the AfD.
The deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group, Konstantin Kuhle, summed up the prevailing mood aptly: The AfD could portray itself as a victim, so the plan would "do more harm than good". He told Die Welt: "The failure of such a proposal would be a catastrophe." Therefore, the skepticism in the FDP parliamentary group is very great.
Greens as the only faction in favor of AfD ban proposal
Yesterday it became known that the Saxon CDU MP Marco Wanderwitz had collected more than the required 37 signatures for the motion to ban the party. Apparently there are at least ten MPs from each faction and group - with the exception of the FDP and BSW. Apparently the AfD's election results of just under and in some cases significantly more than 30 percent in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg were decisive in strengthening the will to ban the competition.
Currently, the Greens, who are the third-largest faction in the Bundestag, are the only ones who want to rally behind the motion. The majority of MPs will agree, the faction said. The Left group also supports the AfD ban, but wants to leave the decision open.
SPD sees proposal as “counterproductive”
The SPD is torn because of the obvious lack of chances. Politically, the Social Democrats want nothing more than for the AfD to disappear - but legally this does not seem to be possible. "A motion to ban it would be politically counterproductive now," said the chairwoman of the SPD's Basic Values Commission, Gesine Schwan, to the Tagesspiegel newspaper.
It is remarkable how ignorant Schwan thinks people are: "It would drive even more citizens who are not very familiar with the conditions and requirements of pluralist democracy and therefore cannot identify with it into the arms of the AfD."
CDU distances itself from Wanderwitz
Although the motion was initiated by a member of their parliamentary group, the Union is also clearly distancing itself from it: A ban on the AfD is considered to be the "wrong way to deal with this party," said domestic policy spokesman Alexander Throm (CDU) to Die Welt. The CDU/CSU wants to "fight the AfD politically and thereby expose its extremism." His parliamentary group will vote against the ban motion in the Bundestag.
Although their top candidate in Brandenburg, Robert Crumbach, had called for a ban on the AfD during the election campaign, BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht also rejected the proposal as the "stupidest of the year". On T-Online, she said that this was "an election campaign gift par excellence to the AfD from the middle of the Bundestag".
However, efforts to ban the party are also continuing at other levels. The red-red-green Senate of Bremen is considering submitting a ban application to the Bundesrat. In the meantime, a collection of materials has been compiled to push the plan forward.
This is how the SPD wants to save the motion
After the Wanderwitz motion did not receive unanimous approval in the Bundestag, the SPD proposed watering it down. The Social Democrats fear that even a rejection in the Bundestag would benefit the AfD.
The request of the AfD ban supporters could still get a majority, according to the Chancellor's party, if it were sent to the federal government as an order for an investigation so that it could request a corresponding procedure in Karlsruhe. In the traffic light coalition, the request could then be sat out and slowly fizzle out.
After the Wanderwitz motion did not receive unanimous approval in the Bundestag, the SPD proposed watering it down. The Social Democrats fear that even a rejection in the Bundestag would benefit the AfD.
The request of the AfD ban supporters could still get a majority, according to the Chancellor's party, if it were sent to the federal government as an order for an investigation so that it could request a corresponding procedure in Karlsruhe. In the traffic light coalition, the request could then be sat out and slowly fizzle out.
Source: Junge Freiheit
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