“If the date of its publication surprised us, in the middle of May 1, no one is surprised by the content of this report”, Comments Carsten Koschmouder, from the Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science, in Berlin. “”AFD continues to radicalize, while all European extremist parties, even the FPö in Austria, try to moderate to reach power “notes this political scientist.
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The anti-AFD dike is reinforced
The publication of this report, and the official AFD qualification as a far -right party, has no automatic impact. If nothing obliges the authorities of the State to react, politically this report is a bomb and forces the other training courses to (re)-Position, starting with the family of the new chancellor Friedrich Merz. Thus, within Christians Democrats, the debate on a possible lifting of the “anti-Afd firewall at the Bundestag” takes lead in the wing. Two weeks ago, the new boss of the Christian Democratic parliamentary group, Jens Spahn, had campaigned for AFD to access certain positions of responsibility, such as the vice-president of the Bundestag and the presidency of certain commissions, as authorized by his new status as “first opposition party”. However, since the publication of the report of internal intelligence services, Jens Spahn has returned to his positions. “The AFD democratic dam is reinforced,” says, satisfied, political scientist Heiko Funke.
Another consequence of the official ranking of AFD among the far-right parties, the political class wonders and divides again on the merits of launching, or not, a procedure of prohibition against it. The arguments of each camp are numerous, between on the one hand, between the need to protect democracy and the rule of law, and on the other hand the doubts in the face of a procedure which could last years, without guarantee of success, in front of a party “now too strong to be prohibited” and which could accelerate its victimization strategy, without the evil being treated in its root. This is in particular what many Christian democratic tenors think-Chancellor Friedrich Merz has not expressed himself on the subject-which count more on the solving the problems of the Germans to lower AFD in influence. Others offer an intermediate solution with a procedure to limit the financial support of the State and weaken its structures. “”These various arguments are not opposed “, Communes Carshest Kosher’s Cars. “We can and must fight politically against AFD and against the reasons for the extremist vote, while weakening the party structures, and launching a procedure of prohibition”, he judges. In any case, none of these solutions will be fast.
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What attitude to adopt?
In the medium term, the publication of this report should have effects on the political orientation of this party now second political force in the country. “”AFD may be radicalizing again “, Note the political scientist Carsten Koschmouder. “”This ranking can scare its most moderate members, but also its members, civil servants, teachers, police, judges, required to respect the Constitution. If they leave the party to avoid losing their jobs, for example, will only remain the most radical. A reverse scenario, namely a call from managers to moderation, is also possible, but very unlikely “, he believes.
In the meantime, and isolated like never before, AFD representatives filed a complaint on Monday against the internal intelligence services for “abuse of power” so that their report is canceled. Denouncing a “political instrumentalization” intended to “distort democratic competition and delegitimize millions of voters of voters”, they however obtained the support of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, and the American Secretary of State Marco Rubio. For the latter, “Germany has granted new powers to monitoring the opposition to its inner intelligence service. It is not a democracy, it is a disguised tyranny“.
For German internal intelligence, there is no doubt that AFD is a far -right party dangerous for democracy
