Who would be the NZ equivalent of the AFD?
The Daily Sceptic reports:
This document was supposed to support the case for banning the AfD. Specifically, it was supposed to convince those who matter that ban proceedings have a good chance of success with the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. On this front, the dossier is a dismal failure. This is why our new Chancellor Friedrich Merz has suddenly decided – in the 48 hours since the thing was leaked – that he opposes banning the AfD after all.
We have to be very clear about the standards here. For a party to be banned in the Federal Republic, it must be opposed to the “freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung”, or the “free democratic basic order”. This is an ideological trinity consisting of human dignity, democracy and the rule of law. Pure opposition is however not enough; the offending party must also seek to overcome at least one of these triune deities in an “aggressive” and “combative” fashion. The anti-democratic agenda must moreover be associated with the party as a whole. Practically, this means you need to get party leadership militating aggressively against democracy and/or the rule of law and/or human dignity.
The BfV assessment falls so far short of this standard, you have to wonder if there are saboteurs working secretly to defend the AfD inside the offices of constitutional protection. To say that this thing is shit would be an understatement.
So the dossier against the AFD falls short. But the part that interested me was this:
you need to get party leadership militating aggressively against democracy and/or the rule of law
If that is the German definition of an extremist party that should be banned, which party in NZ would that best apply to?
