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Germany: Two court rulings this week have dealt a blow to the Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Pressure is now mounting for the party to be banned
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https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-far-right-afd-under-mounting-pressure/a-69078624
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That’s because the Münster Higher Administrative Court (OVG) has on Monday rejected a complaint by the party against its classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) as a suspected right-wing extremist case.
On Tuesday, a court ruled against Thuringian AfD leader Björn Höcke for allegedly using a slogan from the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, the Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung).
The graduate historian and former history teacher denies knowing the origin of the banned slogan “Alles für Deutschland” (Everything for Germany).
Following the AfD’s defeat in court, Saxon member of parliament Marco Wanderwitz of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) announced that he would initiate a motion in the German Bundestag to ban the party.
The Christian Democrat explained his initiative to the German weekly paper Die Zeit, stating that the party could no longer be kept at bay by political means, especially in eastern Germany.
The longtime AfD observer said he found it difficult to understand any doubts in a successful procedure to ban the party, so long as the application for such a move was carefully examined and submitted.
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