As we know right wing met recently and they are planning to get rid of immigrants (even those with citizenship):
German far-right met to plan ‘mass deportations’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67948861
Another factor here is that, they will have to strip people of their citizenship, even if they are white and I assume Afd is not keen on that, so constitutional change is difficult.
I’m interested to know how would German constitution support this and can Afd bend the constitution and even implement laws retroactively?
by firealready
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It wouldn’t.
With enough power you could change everything. Even the parts that are unchangable.
It’s completely unconstitutional. First of all, the constitution completely forbids stripping someone of citizenship if they become stateless through that, which would be the case for many or most of those targeted citizens. Then it’s also blatantly targeting people by race or ethnicity, again completely unconstitutional.
Basically, if any government in Germany tried that, I’d support a military coup to overthrow such a government.
To the extent that a possible future AfD government either decides to or is not able to break from the bounds of democracy and constitutionality, many aspects of their plans are simply unenforceable.
That being said, there’s some foundation on [revoking citizenship](https://www.dw.com/en/revoking-citizenship-how-it-works-across-the-eu/a-47773802). Varies by country, but the laws can be changed (not with retroactive effect, if we maintain constitutionality). A future AfD government can make “disloyalty” one such reason for revocation, and they can try to use an extremely loose definition of “disloyalty”. But again, if constitutionality is maintained, this all we be challenged in courts.
They can also not leave people stateless because Germany is party to the relevant international conventions for the reduction of statelessness. If someone’s only citizenship is the German one, they can’t revoke that citizenship at all, because they will be rendering that person stateless.
I know that on a day-to-day we are annoyed by Germany’s decentralisation, layers-upon-layers of competing jurisdictions and bureaucracy and so on, but on the bright side, it makes it much harder for a government to stack the cards in their favour or work around the system entirely. Kudos to the constitution drafters, good job.
There’s the **extremely** remote scenario that AfD can carry out a coup without anyone noticing, but short of that, they will not be able to pass through most of their programme. Unless they plan to use violence, they are just lying to their voters that this programme is realistic.
That’s the benefit of being a purely opposition party.
None of your proposals have to be anywhere close to actually being possible.