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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.

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[-] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Props to OP for making it clear in the post body, but the headline made it a bit more clickbate-y than it should have been. That article is about NPD, a very minor and actual neo nazi party. The anti-right protests that have been happening recently, instead, are about the AfD (alternative for Germany) party, which is set to gain a sizeable 23% of the votes for its far right coalition ID during the next European elections.

In other words yeah they are cutting funds from a far right party, but not from the far right party.

[-] DdCno1@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

AfD is an actual Neo-Nazi party as well. Their positions, goals, external and internal communication and even the wording they are using are indistinguishable from the NPD. German article on this topic:

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/afd-und-npd-so-aehnlich-sind-sich-die-parteien-in-sprache-ideologie-und-strategie-a-213568aa-a310-4782-946d-b9190f596f29

[-] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I haven't actually bothered looking at what AfD stands for (obvious disclaimer: I'm not German, I'm allowed to not care lol)

Just wanted to make it even more clear that this party wasn't the one causing the people in Berlin to storm the streets.

EDIT: I tried opening your article, and aside from the language barrier, which my browser extensions were able to overcome, it looks paywalled.

[-] DdCno1@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Use Bypass Paywalls Clean to read the article.

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