Germany’s spy agency BfV has labeled the entirety of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an extremist entity.

The BfV domestic intelligence agency, which is in charge of safeguarding Germany’s constitutional order, said the announcement comes after an “intense and comprehensive” examination.

“The ethnicity-and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the BfV said on Friday.

Hopefully this inspires the other parties to to start the process to see the AfD banned. I know the report might not look like much, because of how obvious the findings are. But previous attempts at banning them have failed because such an official report was missing. So maybe our political system starts getting its shit together.

As we say in Germany: Hope dies last

  • @futatorius@lemm.ee
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    1114 days ago

    Better to ask what failure of the system made that party popular in the first place.

    In the case of the US, it was propaganda by a hostile country, and by malefactors of great wealth whose interests aligned with that hostile country. In the former case, an act of war; in the latter, treason.

    • @floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Completely agree. But wanted to note that by that definition the US should be at war with half the world after all the foreign government meddling it has been doing for the last century

    • LustyArgonian
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      https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2766

      It’s BRICS, they want to control a new world currency, and they started WW3 for it. They convinced greedy oligarchs here that they would be in charge and important, “corporate monarchy,” and the oligarchs ignored what happened to Jack Ma and all those Russian oligarchs