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The protests against right-wing extremism are reverberating: Bremen's Interior Senator Mäurer is thinking out loud about a “first important step” with a view to the AfD.
Bremen – The AfD, which is partly classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is currently experiencing resistance – also from the street.
Should we therefore want to ban the party?
Many fear that this could become a “PR coup” for the right-wing populists.
Nancy Faeser (SPD), Friedrich Merz (CDU) and Markus Söder (CSU) are just a few examples of leading politicians who speak out against a possible AfD ban procedure.
Bremen's Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD) is now bringing a “first step” into play in the debate.
According to “YouGov”, the AfD chairmen Tino Chrupalla (r.) and Alice Weidel are receiving less support after the protests against the right.
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Debate about the AfD ban: Bremen's SPD Interior Senator rushes forward
A ban on the AfD in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt would be a “first important step,” said the SPD politician
in the Bremen parliament on Wednesday (January 24th), according to
dpa .
Only with a broad, cross-state alliance can a ban procedure at the federal level ultimately be successful.
“We will increase the pressure,” promised Mäurer.
Mäurer mentioned that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been keeping an eye on the Identitarian movement for ten years - probably with a view to ex-Identitarian leader Martin Sellner and the reports about the radical meeting in November.
“Now a new quality has been achieved where this madness is setting a precedent,” said Mäurer.
Against the background of the protests against right-wing extremism, the SPD politician said: “We don’t want to be accused of having missed the situation.”
Survey: Revelations about Potsdam meetings damage AfD's image
The legal hurdles for a possible ban procedure against the AfD are high: the application would have to be submitted by the Bundestag, Bundesrat or federal government.
Revelations about a meeting of right-wing radicals in Potsdam were the trigger for the recent street protests;
Any plans to overthrow the Federal Republic would have to be proven in a lengthy process, emphasized
Spiegel
.
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However, according to a recent
YouGov
survey, the protests have had a negative impact on approval ratings for the AfD.
When asked a corresponding question, 49 percent of the almost 2,300 respondents said this.
However, 14 percent said that the reports had a positive influence on their opinion of the AfD.
24 percent said: neither.
For 29 percent each, the reports had a negative impact on the image of the CDU and CSU.
The research network
Correctiv
had revealed that the former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he had spoken about options for “remigration” at the meeting in November.
Some AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Union of Values were also present.
(frs with dpa)