US press: protests took place in Germany calling for a ban on the activities of the increasingly popular AfD party
There have been protests in Germany calling for a complete ban on the activities of the increasingly popular right-wing political force Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is currently the second most popular in the country.
According to the American edition of The Washington Post, outrage over the party’s activities was caused by a meeting of a group of senior AfD members with “representatives of far-right forces” to discuss the possibility of forcibly deporting migrants.
The American newspaper claims that several hundred German residents came out with calls for a complete ban on AfD activities. The protesters declared slogans “for democracy and against the right.”
The German authorities, in turn, are considering the possibility of introducing a ban on the financing of all right-wing parties that have been recognized as extremist. In addition, German intelligence services took note of the increasingly popular AfD on suspicion of extremism.
The head of the German government, Olaf Scholz, has repeatedly called the AfD and other right-wing forces advocating the mass deportation of migrants “right-wing extremist enemies of democracy.”
Earlier it was reported that the head of the AfD faction in the German Bundestag, Alice Weidel, accused the country's government, in particular its head Scholz, of the ongoing economic recession in Germany. The politician emphasized that it is not Russia or some fictitious climate disasters that are to blame for Germany’s problems, but the incompetent current leadership of the country, in particular Chancellor Scholz.
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