Michael Risel discusses with
Dirk Laabs, author and film maker
Albrecht von Lucke, editor »Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik« [Journal of German and International Politics]
Prof. Dr. Emanuel V. Towfigh, legal scholar, EBS Law School

Liberal-conservative and against the Euro—when the right-wing political party »Alternative für Deutschland« (AfD) was founded in 2013, the party was moderate compared to today. Since then, the AfD has become so radicalized that the German Bundestag will soon be debating whether a motion to ban the party should be filed. But is the AfD really a threat to the free democratic basic order? Is it possible to ban a party to which almost a third of voters in East Germany recently gave their vote? And if a ban is legally possible, would it be politically wise?

Book for the program:
Michael Kraske and Dirk Laabs: Angriff auf Deutschland. Die schleichende Machtergreifung der AfD [Attack on Germany. The creeping seizure of power by the AfD], publisher C.H. Beck 2024, EUR 18,00.

Broadcast from 14 October, 2024, 17:05, Forum, SWR Kultur

Source: SWR Kultur

[Translated by DeepL]