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Comment: The NPD can still hope

Although the extreme-right party makes at the start of proceedings to ban a nervous impression. Nevertheless, Marcel Fürstenau continue to doubt that the arguments of the länder are strong enough.

The national democratic party lives up to its name seemingly all the glory. Your commitment to the free Democratic basic order standing program in the party, says Peter judge. The man is representative of the in reality, extreme right-wing NPD, whose future at the
Ban procedure before the Federal constitutional court on the game. When it comes down to it, the splinter party, the National is more important than the democratic. More: “national” means for the NPD, Germany over everything, and “democratic” may confidently be used as a Camouflage.

While Juggling with words, this party got any something. Your dismissive attitude towards other cultures and ethnic groups, to foreigners and refugees NPD-lawyer judges veiled as a “social ideology”. This is not an “ideology of race”. On this fine, nasty difference you must come first. Your actual attitude is to recognize the NPD, if it appeals to their base instincts. On campaign posters the Muslims is desired, a “good journey home” – with flying carpets. An image that could have come from a Satire magazine. The NPD but it says very seriously.

Tillich’s bold claim: “The NPD is politically significant”

This is also true for that motive, on the former party’s leader, Udo Voigt sitting on a motorbike: “Gas!” as a Slogan next to it. The poster hung in Berlin in front of the Jewish Museum. With such vulgarity, the NPD is always on the edge of sedition. Anti-Semite such slogans are anyway. But is that enough to ban the party? Federal Council President Stanislaw Tillich considers the NPD for “politically significant” and “dangerous”. He says as the word of the leader of the ban advocates before the Federal constitutional court. A daring statement.

DW-capital correspondent MArcel Fürstenau

The voters in Tillich’s Saxony obstructing the passage of the NPD in 2014, the re-enter Parliament. Only in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, there are NPD deputies in the Landtag. That Tillich’s state is still particularly vulnerable to right and right-extremist movements, can be directly attributed to the NPD, with legally convincing arguments. In prohibition proceedings, the question is, whether this party is unconstitutional. Not a question of whether the Pegida movement, or the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) in NPD-fishing waters.

Dealing with V-people in the spotlight – again

The constitutional court judges of the Second Senate’s court President Andreas Voßkuhle brought to start to have the impression that too much comprehension for the crude image of the world of the NPD. But they also had a lot of critical questions to the applicant of a prohibition application, the Federal Council. They were mainly related to the questionable practice of V-people of the constitutional protection. The first attempt to ban the NPD failed in 2003. The evidence presented came much of Informers of the state authority.

That is such a Turn playing on the second attempt no decisive role, because the constitutional court had already in the preparation of proceedings to ban your doubts. Therefore, they demanded improvements before they would allow it. From this decision, the optimism of the Federal Council fed. He should be his thing. The constitutional judges also wanted to know, what are the consequences of the waiver of the V-people for the Constitution, have protection? The answer: The image of the NPD had become “blurred”. An answer that somehow fits to the prohibition proceedings. Because of the opening in the NPD prohibition proceedings has sharpened the spotlight on this unsavory party by no means. For an evaluation, which is judgement of the cases, the constitutional judge in the end, it’s still much too early.

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