The far-flung populist options for Germany (AFD) made their voter support 20.8% in the February election, making it the second greatest power in Bundestag. It gives fresh speed into the stream with a continuous stream of abetment, enmity and movement of older parties and media.
AFD party leader Ellis Videl is known for her harsh rhetoric. In the parliamentary debate, he has given Muslim immigrants as “Headscarf Girls” and “knife men”.
However, such zenophobia violate the principles of the open, pluralistic society of Germany, where the right to uniform treatment before the law is a fundamental value. The original law of Germany, the constitution of the country states, “No one can be deprived or favorite of their gender, origin, race, language, language, motherland and original, faith, religious or political ideas.”
When constitutional lawyers warn as a threat to democracy against AFD, this is mainly due to this issue of the same treatment as citizens.
According to Mathius Goldman, Professor of International Law at the University of EBS at HASS, “Unconstitutionalism rises above the fact that AFD does not share the principles of equal freedom. In Germany, the Constitution guards, equally human dignity and, equally, according to the Professor of International Law in EBS University.
‘Enemy of German Constitution’
Stephen Moller is a new member of the Bundestag for AFD, from the eastern state of Thingia, where voters deal with him with a spectacular victory. However, for the protection of the Constitution, the Thuringian Office says that there is evidence that Molar is the “enemy of the Constitution”.
On July 17, 2023, Stephen Moller took to post platform X: “Are you German, fixed between your ears, not on paper.” This suggests that for molar, everyone who holds a German passport is actually a German.
There are many concerns about the rise of AFD because it wants millions of people to leave the country, although it deliberately suggests what it really means. The AFD leaders repeatedly come up with exile fantasies for the Germans with the immigration background: the honorary president of the party Alexander Galand, for example, once he suggested that he “deal with Anatolia in the former Bundestag President Ayadan özoguz.”
The influential regional AFD leader Björn Höcke has written a book in which he envisages a “massive reconsideration project” that will request “well -tempered cruelty” in his execution. “This means that human difficulty and unpleasant scenes cannot always be avoided,” we write. This is a person AFD Chancellor candidate, Ellis Wide said that if she ever entered the government, wild appointment as a minister in her cabinet.
Goldman said that the law professor Mathius Goldman has warned that the AFD has planned to rebuild the country’s citizenship law: “A proposal is that dual citizenship could be canceled for some criminals,” Goldman told DW.
Attempt to reduce democratic consent
For Goldman, AFD has managed to ensure that such proposals are now discussed by supporters of traditional orthodox parties. Goldman sees this as a proof of the success of AFD’s strategy, its purpose under the original democratic consensus.
AFD wants to be the largest opposition group in Parliament. He discovers that its MPs want to be important for the time of speaking important. Since it is only under 25% seats, however, it cannot install parliagenary inquiry committees. With one third of the seats, it could block the appointment of judges.
Over time, the warnings about the party seem to be wearing thin due to a threat to democracy. Many people in Germany have been constantly formed on charges of provocation.
For its part, the windel turns the table and accuses other parties that there is a threat to democracy to refuse to cooperate with the AFD.
At the regional level, the party is welding its radical effect. In a small state of Thuryingia, AFD now holds a “blocked minority” as it exceeds one -third of seats in Parliament. For weeks, AFD has used this blocked minority to stop the election of new judges and public prosecutors in the state, putting a stressful in the functions of a working democracy. For Goldman, the argument behind the thesis action is clear: “AFD wants to influence the judiciary,” he says.
Goldman is one of the sixteen constitutional lawyers behind a step to ban AFD by the Supreme Court of Germany, Federal Constitutional Court.
This article was original in German.
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