| Author (Corporate) | Germany: Federal Constitutional Court |
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| Series Title | Press Release |
| Series Details | No.4, 2017 (17.01.17) |
| Publication Date | 17/01/2017 |
| Content Type | News |
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Germany's constitutional court ruled on the 17 January 2017 against banning the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), whose neo-Nazi agenda was considered by many as anti-constitutional. The Bundesrat (upper house of the German parliament) had launched the legal challenge in 2013. The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) advocates a concept aimed at abolishing the existing free democratic basic order. The NPD intends to replace the existing constitutional system with an authoritarian national state that adheres to the idea of an ethnically defined 'people’s community' (Volksgemeinschaft). Its political concept disrespects human dignity and is incompatible with the principle of democracy. Furthermore, the NPD acts in a systematic manner and with sufficient intensity towards achieving its aims that are directed against the free democratic basic order. However, (currently) there is a lack of specific and weighty indications suggesting that this endeavour will be successful; for that reason the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court, in its judgment pronounced on the 17 January 2017, unanimously rejected as unfounded the Bundesrat’s admissible application to establish the unconstitutionality of the NPD and its sub-organisations |
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| Source Link | http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2017/bvg17-004.html |
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| Countries / Regions | Germany |
