According to a report by this institution, the AfD is working on shifting the limits of what can be said (…) in such a way that people “get used to” their national, ethnic and racist positions in the public and political sphere.
However, the institute, whose legal mandate is to prevent human rights violations in Germany, pointed out that it does not currently support such a measure.
The party actively and methodically pursues its racist and right-wing extremist goals
(…) and seeks to abolish the guarantees enshrined in Article 1 of the Basic Law (Constitution), the text added.
Recent polls, however, show his support rising, so in a current election the AfD would capture 18 percent of the vote, level with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), according to the poll. Monthly Germany trend of the public television broadcaster ARD.
The Human Rights Institute added that it is “vital” (…) that awareness of the danger posed by this political force is recognized by both society at large and the state.
This danger can only be countered effectively “if the other parties at federal, state and local level clearly distance themselves from the AfD,” the text says.
Parties whose goals or the behavior of their supporters are likely to impair or eliminate the free democratic basic order or endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany are considered unconstitutional.
In addition, the respective political force must have an actively combative and aggressive attitude towards the free democratic basic order.
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