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150,000 protesters in about 20 German cities demand the banning of the Alternative for Germany
(www.aljazeera.com)
Nazis just love to keep coming back.
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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The sentiment is good but that's at best treating symptoms (at worst it gives them more legitimacy).
They just get a new name and come back. To solve the problem, address the roots of that problem. Of course, much easier said than done.
You would be right, that banning the party will not solve the whole problem. However, it would buy time to solve the problem.
Also it would not be easy for them to just come back under a different name. While the bar for a party ban is set high, once a party was banned, it is so much easier to immediately ban any successor. Possible successors will immediately be subject to investigations and the burden of proof is reversed. Now it is not the state that has to proof that the new party is lawful, the new party has to distance themselves from the "predecessor" and proof that they are a party operating on the grounds of the constitution.
They should demand that at the ballot.
No, they shouldn't (they actually can't). The AfD won an election in one federal state. The German constitution allows banning a party, if said party's goals contain abolishing core concepts of the constitution.
The federal government or one of the two chambers of parliament can ask the constitutional court to check, whether a party (or parts of it) is to be banned.
So the course of action for the majority of citizens, who want the AfD banned, is to convince the federal government or their respective state governments to ask the court to do so. And the only way to do that, right now, is to take that demand to the streets.