German lawmakers can’t agree whether to seek ban on far-right AfD

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1. Surely it is easier to ban afd instead ensuring noone vote for them with good policies and respect of people voice. You ban them, another one will come out unless you start to fix the problem instead of creating another one.

2. And by the time they made a decision, AFD will be in government.

3. To do it right now, just before the election, is a sure way to hand them more votes.

4. Actually, the social democrats are blocking it. They have no idea how to combat the AFD in any shape or form, so they just don’t do anything.

5. Democracy needs to be defended, unfortunately this may be too little too late. Let’s hope we can unite and kick out the fascists once more.

6. What’s the point to ban your opponent? Seems like someone is trying to play dirty game here 🤔

7. You cant change peoples opinions by banning parties. Go find the root cause.. what makes people vote for Afd ?

8. You can’t ban disease only try to cure it. If they ban AfD the problem is not going away. German lawmakers should think about what is causing ppl to vote far-right instead of ban.

9. It’s not a far right movement. It’s a neo-nazis movement. Come on Germany!

10. I remember how you people called Meloni a fascist , yet here we are , she doing just fine.

    You do the same with Trump , and you doing the same with AFD in Germany(wich im not informed here) i think theres a patern there

11. Libs doing mental gymnastics trying to justify acting like fascist only to prevent fascism?

12. If the proposal passes, there is no way the Constitutional Court decides the case before the election. So the question is, what impact will this have on the voters. But the voters are according to a poll split around 50/50 on this issue, so I don’t think there is much to gain with this debate.

    I think it would have been wiser for the representatives who support that proposal to wait until after the election and then bring that issue into the negotiation about a coalition between CDU/CSU, SPD, and Greens to make sure they have a majority before bringing it to parliament. Ideally, there should be very little debate about this in parliament, because ultimately it is up to the court and that is where the bulk of the debate should be held.

13. Just a friendly reminder that politico is owned by Springer, a German media giant that is partly responsible for the rise of the AfD.

14. they didnt manage to ban the real neonazi party, so why would they ban the AFD? Also: lets say you ban the AFD, a party representing about 20-25% of the population and not have the proper neonazi party banned, you risk people just voting for them instead. What some people dont realize is that banning a party/movement this big will introduce a whole new set of issues we cannot even think about right now

15. Ah, the democracy-lovers.

    Nothing says more that you are on the right side, as banning political party’s.

16. You know who else “banned” their rival political parties?

    The Nazis.

17. European democrazy strikes again!

    “Tyranny is when my side loses, *democracy is when we win*!”.

18. This is the paradox of tolerance being demonstrated in real-time. The optics of suppression will enrage the AfD base, but allowing them to continue skirting the law weakens democracy.

    I think what the general public needs most is moral clarity and conviction in handling these matters – leadership. It’s clear that the current constellation of parties is divided on essentially everything. There’s an absence of urgency here that is appalling.

19. Banning the AfD now is way to late. nearly 20% is voting them and many will be radicalised.

20. Keep in mind that banning a group of people (25% of voters, is it?) from participating in democracy, especially with such extremist views, will probably lead to extremist actions.

    Banning or not, I don’t expect things to go well either way.

21. Yeah, a ban on any party will just make things worse. Just gonna throw more fuel to the fire. Change your own policies and listen to the people who vote for afd instead. If you ban them a new and even worse will show up and people will just vote for them in despise. How do you people not get that? It’s not rocket science to understand this.

22. You can ban the party, but not the ideas behind it.

    And my friend, ideas, are bulletproof.

23. If a democratic system feels it needs to ban a party then doesn’t the system itself need changing?

24. Let’s disenfranchise almost 25% of the population. What could possibly go wrong. What’s their next step? Killing those 25%? Because they’re not going to stop existing after you ban the party and a lot of them will be really mad.

25. Office management can’t agree whether to call firefighters as paper pin burns.

26. Does anyone else feels that EVERYTHING is getting like… A little too much fucked?

27. Grow a spine and ban them, protect your democracy.

    They also said Trump should be defeated at the bailout box, see what happened, fascism won there.

    Greece banned Golden Down nazis and its democracy remains intact.

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