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Germany’s domestic intelligence agency formally classified the Alternative for Germany as a right-wing extremist movement, meaning authorities will have enhanced powers to monitor the party as a potential threat to democracy.

The judgment by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution “is based on an extremely careful expert review spanning approximately three years” that examined remarks made by high-ranking AfD officials, according to a statement published Friday by Sinan Selen and Silke Willems, the office’s co-vice presidents.

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  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    However, they can not startathe process of banning a party unless our parliament or the Bundesrat (I dont know what’s the translation/English equivalent for this is) tells the court to investigate a party.

    Bundestag : First Chamber
    Bundesrat : Second Chamber

    Composition of Bundesrat currently:

    Red is social democratic SPD, black and blue are conservative CDU+CSU, green is left-ecoliberal Grüne, yellow is neoliberal FDP, orange is ruralist-regionalist FW, purple is left-auth BSW, magenta is left-socialist Linke.

    They represent the 16 federal states’ coalition governments.

    • rhombus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      The actual translations are something like Bundestag=Federal Diet and Bundesrat=Federal Council. Bundestag was originally the Reichstag in Imperial Germany (Diet of the Realm, or Imperial Diet) while the Bundesrat had the same name as it represented the state governments as it does now.