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Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.

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[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Greece did something similar a few years ago.

The Golden Dawn far right wing party was declared a criminal organization (after some violence that lead to a few stabbings and at least one death) and their leaders were thrown in jail.

From the ashes of Golden Dawn and a few other populist/Christian conservative/nationalist parties rose a few new ones, with more careful rhetoric and open support from the now jailed golden dawn leaders and high ranking church ministers.

They are collectively holding 26 of the 300 seats in the parliament and are expected to get better results on the next election cycle.

You can ban them all you want, they can still reform into a "we are not far right, wink wink" party after the ban itself verifies their far right status and rise to power all the same.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago (7 children)

A party ban in germany results also in a pohibition to form follow up parties. That's why we should aim for the party and not single members

[–] hallunke23@troet.cafe 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yes - but if leading AfD figures were stripped of their right to vote, then such ruling would hit that person _regardless_ of which party he or she¹ is in. And it would also prevent those people from running as independent candidates. So I think going after individuals vs. going after parties is not an either-or. It would make sense to do both.

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¹ I don't think AfD has enby members.

@MaggiWuerze @Zer0_F0x

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

¹ I don’t think AfD has enby members.

What does that have to do with anything?

[–] hallunke23@troet.cafe 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Ah, that footnote was not rendered properly in my app. Thought it was just a random statement

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