Post by illgrace on Nov 22, 2007 11:03:05 GMT
To anyone who has read a history of this region, this is not really a surprise. It's not so much a 're-resurgence' as the fact it never went away in some places. But still, this is a worry.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7105445.stm
++There have been calls in the German parliament for a ban on a far-right party that has been winning increased support in poorer parts of the east of the country.
Frequent NPD demonstrations are held in parts of eastern Germany
"The National Democratic Party (NPD) provides the core infrastructure for neo-Nazis in Germany. That's why we are considering a ban," says a determined Sebastian Edathy.
He is a Social Democrat MP in the German Bundestag and is the main voice calling for a federal ban of the far-right NPD. He has just got his party to agree to begin the long, slow process towards a ban.
In 2003, the proposal got as far as the Constitutional Court, and stumbled. Next time, Edathy says, it will work. He rattles off his reasons:
"The NPD is anti-Semitic and very racist. It is oriented on Hitler's old party, the NSDAP. It is against a multiple party system. It is undemocratic," he says.
"The NPD is quite obviously working openly against the constitution. For example, every weekend demonstrations take place organised by the NPD but involving radical, violence-prone neo-Nazis." ++
Sigh.
Illgrace
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7105445.stm
++There have been calls in the German parliament for a ban on a far-right party that has been winning increased support in poorer parts of the east of the country.
Frequent NPD demonstrations are held in parts of eastern Germany
"The National Democratic Party (NPD) provides the core infrastructure for neo-Nazis in Germany. That's why we are considering a ban," says a determined Sebastian Edathy.
He is a Social Democrat MP in the German Bundestag and is the main voice calling for a federal ban of the far-right NPD. He has just got his party to agree to begin the long, slow process towards a ban.
In 2003, the proposal got as far as the Constitutional Court, and stumbled. Next time, Edathy says, it will work. He rattles off his reasons:
"The NPD is anti-Semitic and very racist. It is oriented on Hitler's old party, the NSDAP. It is against a multiple party system. It is undemocratic," he says.
"The NPD is quite obviously working openly against the constitution. For example, every weekend demonstrations take place organised by the NPD but involving radical, violence-prone neo-Nazis." ++
Sigh.
Illgrace
