From the Basic Law, Germany's Constitution....Article 18 has come up a bit in the past week.
What this concerns? There is a movement to disqualify the AfD Party (far-right) from elections.
The text of Article 18?
Whoever abuses the freedom of expression, in particular the freedom of the press (paragraph (1) of Article 5), the freedom of teaching (paragraph (3) of Article 5), the freedom of assembly (Article 8), the freedom of association (Article 9), the privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications (Article 10), the rights of property (Article 14) or the right of asylum (Article 16a) in order to combat the free democratic basic order shall forfeit these basic rights. This forfeiture and its extent shall be declared by the Federal Constitutional Court.
A big deal? Presently, polls say that AfD has around 20-to-22 percent of the public vote. So that group....into several million voters will be disgruntled to an extreme level, and will probably hunt a new political party to take over or control. Remember....originally....AfD was not a anti-migrant party.
If AfD wanted to really throw folks for loop? They should say there's a right to asylum, and a right to deportation....linking the two. The Court would then be forced to consider that asylum isn't a guaranteed thing.
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