CDU Bundestag member Marco Wanderwitz wants to introduce a motion to ban the AfD in parliament and says he has found enough supporters to do so. To put such a motion on the agenda, five percent of MPs are needed, i.e. 37. “We have them together,” the former Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Europe told the newspaper “taz”. A simple majority is needed for a decision. However, a party can only be banned by the Federal Constitutional Court. The Bundestag, the Federal Government and/or the Bundesrat can apply for this.
The written reasons for the judgment of the Higher Administrative Court in Münster, which confirmed the classification of the AfD as a suspected right-wing extremist case by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in May, said Wanderwitz from Saxony. “When the reasons for the judgment are available, we will take a close look at it and then submit our application for a ban updated and well-founded.”
The democratic constitutional state must not simply allow a party “that spreads hatred and incitement around the clock and wants to abolish this constitutional state to continue until it is too late”.
Since the founding of the Federal Republic, only two applications to ban political parties have been successful in Karlsruhe: in 1952 against the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party (SRP) and in 1956 against the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
