A cohort of 113 members of Germany’s Bundestag parliament have signed a motion calling for the Federal Constitutional Court to consider banning the right-wing populist anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
With a legislative election looming in February following the collapse of the leftist-led “traffic light” coalition government last week, rival politicians appear to be growing interested in banning the AfD. If successful this censorious move would conveniently remove one of the country’s most popular parties from contention in the election.
Welt reports that 55 MPs from the Green Party, 32 members of the governing Social Democrats (SPD), 18 Left Party MPs, and seven MPs from the neoliberal Christian Democratic Union (CDU) supported the measure. Except for the CDU, the right-wing populist party has surpassed all the other parties supporting the…
