The Constitutional Court of Germany has rejected a bid by lawmakers to ban the far-right National Democratic Party, NPD.
On announcing the ruling in Karslruhe on Tuesday, Court President Andreas Vosskuhle said that the party’s radical ideology was not enough to merit a ban.
He said that it posed no active threat to democracy.
The NPD, frequently accused of having neo-Nazi links, has been losing influence through the years amid the rise of more socially acceptable right-wing populist movements.
According to the Germany constitution, plaintiffs must prove a party’s ideology is “combative and aggressive” and poses an active threat to the country’s democratic order.
This is the second time that the court in Karlsruhe has ruled against a bid to ban the NPD.
In 2003, the court rejected a similar attempt due to the high number of state informants who had infiltrated the party.
(Reuters/NAN)
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