A German government initiative, backed by the Supreme Court, to ban the main opposition party AfD, is at this point more than a rumor pushed by conspiracy theorists in social media. The SPD approved such a move at their recent national congress and, according to media reports, they insist on their two candidates to the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf and Ann-Katrin Kaufhold (the latter would be deputy chairperson of the BVG), in order to have a pro-ban majority there. There is also a heated debate in CDU leadership layers. However, many in the CDU are against the proposal and argue that the same weapon could one day be used against the CDU itself. Furthermore, a legal procedure to ban the AfD would probably fail.
However, it is feared that the pro-EU cabal ruling in Germany could well embark on a failing endeavor, because the latter would be used for a political/media campaign that would stretch over many years, and would be used in a similar way as the Russiagate hoax in the United States. The legal procedure to ban the KPD, the Communist Party of Germany, took five years—from 1951 to 1956. Ultimately, the KPD was banned.
