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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  • pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.orgEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Considering the CDU could be considered a far right party themselves, they just wanna eliminate their competition, so i wouldn’t get my hopes up.

    They literaly had an election poster with the slogan “You don’t have to vote for the AfD to get what you want. There is a democratic alternative: the CDU!”.

    As long as privately owned press and corporate social media algorithms try to shift the overton window as far right as it can go that’s not gonna happen.