cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64530327

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Tuesday said a recent intelligence assessment classifying the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a confirmed “right-wing extremist” organization is not enough to justify banning the party.

  • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    For non Germans: Dobrindt is from the bavarian CSU. The CSU has been meeting with Trumps republicans to learn how to employ MAGA tactics in Europe. They are good buddies with Orban and in the state of Bavaria their coalition partner Freie Wähler (FW) is run by a guy who as a teenager used to bring leaflets to school demanding to reopen the gas chambers for Jews. Dobrindt used to be minister for infrastructure under a previous Merkel government. As all CSU infrastructure ministers he blocked improvements or even maintenance of the railroad and waterway network, pushed the car manufacturer lobbies goals, shoveled billions in infrastructure development to Bavaria and last but not least slowed the development of the energy grid to distribute renewable energy better.

    The CSU is trying to always be as far right as to just not get flak from the Mainstream media and they have radicalized themselves drastically.

    Just yesterday when the police statistics on politically motivated crime were presented, despite the huge increase in far right crimes, he focused instead on demanding to deport “antisemitic foreigners”.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    He says a lot of nonsense. Frankly I don‘t think I‘ve ever heard him say anything smart or correct or not pathetically petty. This however takes the cake.

  • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    German interior ministers have traditionally been more or less open supporters of the far right. Nothing spectacularly new happening here.

  • phneutral@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Luckily he‘s not the one who decides on that topic. It would be the constitutional court.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      After a procedure has been requested, which can only be done by the federal government, the federal parliament or the state assembly. In all of these the CDU/CSU has a strong position.

      So they will just do everything to block it from going to court. CDU/CSU and AfD have a majority in the federal parliament. The government is run by them and in the state assembly votes from the states come from the state governments, where the coalition needs to agree on things for their state votes to be valid.

      The only way the procedure moves forward is if enough of the CDU people get a grip on reality and stop helping fascists into power. So far these people are few in between a majority that is eager to prepare everything for the fascist takeover.