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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.

https://archive.ph/yNQwE

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 96 points 1 day ago (12 children)

This will 100% be used to suppress left politicians.

Just ban the fucking AfD already.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

In countries where banning parties is a thing, such parties usually have another on the shelf ready to go.

It's usually the party leader that gets banned and the party can't re-register or something.

So when the leader gives their thanks goodbye speech they usually mention the new party.

[–] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Germany's law on party bans automatically bans successor organisations. And membership in a forbidden organisation is a crime that will bring all sorts of repercussions.

[–] jamhmgenau@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah we did learn a thing or two with the nazis and made our laws that way. Sadly many people (especially east germans) didnt

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