The Bundestag deputy from the SSW minority party, Stefan Seidler, is considering a new attempt at initiating a process to ban the AfD party. Seidler, who last year co-sponsored a cross-fraktion request for the examination of an AfD ban, told the “Rheinische Post” (Friday edition): “We unfortunately have to start from scratch and the Bundestag needs to reorganize itself.”
Seidler also stated: “I still intend to initiate a request for an AfD ban process in the Bundestag. However, I cannot do much alone. Important allies like CDU politician Marco Wanderwitz are no longer in the Bundestag. Therefore, the Bundestag factions must first decide how they stand on this issue.”
SPD deputy Carmen Wegge, in light of the AfD’s upgrading by the Federal Agency for the Protection of Constitution (BfV) to a secure right-wing extremist tendency, said: “The Bundestag, the federal government and the Federal Council must now address the consequences of the upgrading of the AfD. For me, it is clear that the examination of a party ban by the Federal Constitutional Court is also part of it.”
She added: “A new group request in the Bundestag is just one of many options. Personally, I would like to see all the democratic factions taking joint action.