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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    10 months ago

    No you don’t. As bad as the American Republican party might be, they are not THIS bad.

    From the NPD wikipedia page:

    The Homeland is a neo-Nazi political party. […]

    The Homeland argues that NATO fails to represent the interests and needs of European people. The party considers the European Union to be little more than a reorganization of a Soviet-style government of Europe along financial lines. […] The Homeland is strongly anti-Zionist, frequently criticizing the policies and activities of Israel.

    The Homeland’s platform asserts that Germany is larger than the present-day Federal Republic, and calls for a return of German territory lost after World War II, a foreign policy position abandoned by the German government in 1990.

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        10 months ago

        Can you elaborate on the “the GOP wants to return to the confederacy” thing? As you can probably tell I am not American, don’t really follow your politics that much. Referencing anything in particular? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it.

        Anyway, I feel like you have kinda overlooked my last point, where NPD is openly claiming areas in the borders of their neighbours. That’s a pretty big deal, coming from a neo nazi party in the country that started WW2. And I don’t recall reading about the GOP having similar policies.

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      10 months ago

      Except for the anti-zionist thing (the American GOP is seemingly Zionist and antisemitic at the same time) and the German-specific stuff, this sounds a lot like Republicans.

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        the American GOP is seemingly Zionist and antisemitic at the same time

        They’re Evangelic pro-Rapture Zionists, not pro-Jewish security Zionists.