Draft agreement seeks to ensure convicted extremists from parties such as the AfD cannot contest elections

Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.

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  • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
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    1 day ago

    At the very least, it’d buy us more time

    That it will.

    to educate the masses. But I’m not optimistic that this will work. Social media needs to die first for that and that’s not likely to happen.

    I am less pessimistic. But I do think ownership structure of social media needs to change.

    Banning the AfD will also make sure that the same people can’t work together anymore.

    Legally? Like forcing people to find new circles of friends? I can’t quite imagine that.