A new report by legal experts has found that efforts to ban Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could be successful — but there would be political dangers to such a move.
I guess you would be able to ban some central people from holding political office for a few years. But to can’t can every member from politics forever.
The AfD is pretty much the glue that is currently holding all the opposing far-right factions together. The moment they’re gone, there will be a lot of infighting.
They couldn’t splinter into new parties. Successor parties would be banned as well by this decision.
I guess you would be able to ban some central people from holding political office for a few years. But to can’t can every member from politics forever.
The AfD is pretty much the glue that is currently holding all the opposing far-right factions together. The moment they’re gone, there will be a lot of infighting.