EU German State bans AfD members from running for mayor - "The German State of Rhineland-Palatinate has banned members of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) from running for mayor."

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/12/german-state-bans-afd-members-from-running-for-mayor/

https://megalodon.jp/2025-1207-0259-05/https://brusselssignal.eu:443/2025/12/german-state-bans-afd-members-from-running-for-mayor/

The German State of Rhineland-Palatinate has banned members of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) from running for mayor.

As first reported by newspaper Junge Freiheit today, the party figures prominently on a list compiled by the State interior ministry of “extremist organisations” whose members are banned from becoming public servants or judges.

The list is part of a legal push to purge the State’s administration from AfD members and other supposed extremists, spearheaded by interior minister Michael Elbing, of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

The ban also applies to many mayoral positions in the western German State, including in Nieder-Olm, a municipality of 35,000 inhabitants near the State capital of Mainz.

Candidates for the March 2026 election for mayor are required to “guarantee that they will always uphold the free democratic basic order as defined in the Basic Law [Germany’s Constitution]” and sign an affidavit attesting to this”.

Candidates also need to declare that they have not been a member of any of the organisations on the interior ministry’s list during the past five years.

Based on this rule, the municipality has now banned Roberto Kiefer, an AfD member, from running for the office of mayor.

Kiefer, a 57-year-old German-US double citizen, told Junge Freiheit: “This is tantamount to banning a political party.”

Other AfD representatives were similarly outraged. Joachim Paul, a State MP for AfD, wrote on X: “This is the newest idea of the Red Extremists and enemy of the constitution, interior minister Michael Elbing (SPD)”.

Joachim Paul was himself banned from running for mayor of the city of Ludwigshafen also in Rhineland-Palatinate in September 2025. That was not, though, under the new extremism legislation but by decision of a panel made up of his party’s political opponents.

The interior ministry’s list includes more than 100 organisations from the right-wing and left-wing spectrum as well as Islamist groups including Al-Qaeda and Hamas and several militant Indian and Palestinian movements.

As news site Nius notes today, militant left-wing group Antifa Ost (Antifa East), some of whose members are currently in court for alleged attempted murder, did not make it onto the list.

AfD is Germany’s main opposition party and achieved 21 per cent of the vote at the February 2025 general election.

 

[Zoobles]

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

 

[Gregis]

Russo-American

Do you need to practice to be this retarded?

 

[babyDunk]

You know, for a group that keeps telling everyone they don't care, Americans tend to seethe really hard at other country's internal politics.

Brother is Canadian

 

[Yamaha YM2612]

Yes. Banning candidates from running is peak democracy

You know, for a group that keeps telling everyone they don't care, Americans tend to seethe really hard at other country's internal politics.

Well if the 20th century has anything to teach us, its that europe cant keep their retarded politics to themselves.

Europe's politics are anything but internal. You remember 2 world wars and the cold war, right?

Its not that americans dont care, its that were concerned about european dictatorships and fascism while trying to tell everyone else that democracy is good

 

[Ser Prize]

Damn, even at the height of the Red Scare in the US in the 1950s, Commies were never banned from running for office. Either individually or based on party membership. TPTB must be petrified of AfD.

They fucking should have been. Fuckers were actively working to subvert the USA for soviets.

 

[Rekeita's Kidneys]

History is a flat circle.

Expect the German Right to push even harder right.

 

[Smar Mijou]

Do you want another Beer Hall Putsch? Because this is how you get another Beer Hall Putsch.

 

[queue-anon]

All the Germans had to do was take the Danish route of becoming conservative on immigration while leaving pretty much all their other policies intact. Oh well. I guess things will get interesting.

 

[Rapesputin]

I hope the Nazis make a comeback.

Maybe the real Nazis were the Lassalleanists we met along the way

 

[Would]

History is a flat circle.

Expect the German Right to push even harder right.

All 45 of them.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Brother is Canadian

Most brothers here are indian

 

[babyDunk]

Most brothers here are indian

Projecting much?

Please restrain yourself as your izzat is at risk.

 

[regalterry]

Do you want another Beer Hall Putsch? Because this is how you get another Beer Hall Putsch.

Don't kid yourself, we're never getting that lucky again.

 

[Made In Wales]

All they have to do is to get candidates to run under the banner of 'Independent'.

The political peeps aren't that smart, they'll just be glad the AFD didn't win.

 

[Echo_Ender]

There's a saying to the extent that when peaceful change is made impossible, violent change will result.

Some think that won't ever happen again in Germany. Don't be so sure. Anything can happen. So don't be surprised when something happens.

They want that to happen so they can be "Justified" in mass-purging all political opposition and go full 1984.

 

[JosephStalin]

They want that to happen so they can be "Justified" in mass-purging all political opposition and go full 1984.

Dunno....might not work.

 

[smartypants302]

Excellent. AfD is just a Russo-American trojan horse, and much like any other "political party" (foreign agents) it shouldn't be allowed to meddle. There should be even more measures taken against anti-German and anti-European parties and individuals but this is a good start.

Meret Schneider, is that you.

if anyone is wondering, she a Swiss politician that believes there international conspiracy of Americans and Russians against her. She batshit crazy, wants to ban meat and looks like the crypt keeper at age 32

 

[DickMain]

Candidates for the March 2026 election for mayor are required to “guarantee that they will always uphold the free democratic basic order{...}"

"so anyway we're not letting people vote for you because that's Good Democracy."

 

[JosephStalin]

Meret Schneider, is that you.

Even anyone wondering, she a Swiss politician that believes there international conspiracy of Americans and Russians against her. She batshit crazy, wants to ban meat and looks like the gatekeeper at age 32
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Holy Jesus Christ! Print out that picture, put it in your window and it will keep evil spirits away.

 

[Snekposter]

Holy Jesus Christ! Print out that picture, put it in your window and it will keep evil spirits away.

But she is an evil spirit. She might as well be a ghost with how see-through she is.