Germany news: Politicians call for ban on radical AfD state branches

Some German politicians have called for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's more radical state branches. Follow DW for the latest.

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High-ranking German politicians, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and Baden-Württemberg's state premier Cem Özdemir, have called for proceedings to ban the most radical regional branches of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. They urge swift initiation of these bans, particularly targeting the ethno-nationalist state branches in Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Brandenburg.

This call comes just days before the September 6 election in Saxony-Anhalt, where an AfD victory could result in a far-right party leading a German state government for the first time since the end of Nazi rule in 1945.

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