The vice-president of the court said that the party’s political concept was incompatible with the German constitution’s guarantee of human dignity.
Germany’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that a small far-right party will not receive state funding for the next six years because its values and goals are unconstitutional and aimed at destroying the country’s democracy.
In its judgment, the Federal Constitutional Court wrote that Die Heimat, formerly known as the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), “continues to disregard the free democratic basic order and, according to its goals and the behaviour of its members and supporters, is aimed at its elimination”.
Presiding Judge Doris Koenig, the court’s vice-president, explained the unanimous decision by saying that the party’s political concept was incompatible with the guarantee of human dignity as defined in Germany’s constitution, the Basic Law.
I wish we could implement this in the US.
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Really? You want the Supreme Court to determine which political organizations are ineligible for participation in the democracy?
Did you read the article? Because that’s not what I’m agreeing with.
Seems like this is just for state funding, not dissolving the party.
So, it doesn’t really apply at all to the US?
What point are you even trying to make?
Top level comment is dumb.
Well, you can’t even formulate why it’s dumb.
Is it because you feel stupid that it wasn’t the gotcha you thought it was, or is it because you’re stupid and didn’t read the article correctly?
Bout damn time! May the world follow Germany’s lead in pushing back against deadly conservatism.