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.

 

[okyt]

Democracy is when we decide who you're allowed to vote for, chud.

 

[Rapesputin]

>tfw you're so democratic you need to ban opposition parties to protect democracy

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

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.

 

[Norms Abused Liver]

US Democrats looking on with envy.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Use this megathread:
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/alternative-for-germany-afd-political-oppression.223787/

Nice "democracy" you have there.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

You can't stop the spirit of secessionism. Rebellion is baked into the German heart since the days of Arminius. The more Jew-imported niggers rape, the more that spirit is kindled. American occupational forces need to be removed. Erwache.

 

[The Last Stand]

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.

Sounds like it was behaving as expected.

 

[~B'Stard de Moustach~]

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.

 

[IrishGuy088]

I hope the Nazis make a comeback.

Fuck these faggot niggers in Europe right now.

 

[peachlover669]

germanys democracy is like a bully on the playground, its fine all until somebody wants to play a different game and then comes the tantrum until they are forced to play what he wants to play again. how dire will it be before someone shaves off a little too much of their mustache again?

 

[LeChampion1992]

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're terrified of losing their gravy train, their gibs, their positions of power, as the neoliberal elites and the left in Europe start stacking L after L. Sure you can have this humilating green policy which mandates you must look gay but you want to have fewer immigrants to protect the worker gtfo nazi!!!

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.

By being pro german you mean more mass migration and pro censorship of people critical of the government I mean?

germanys democracy is like a bully on the playground, its fine all until somebody wants to play a different game and then comes the tantrum until they are forced to play what he wants to play again. how dire will it be before someone shaves off a little too much of their mustache again?

I think Germans in general don't like people who shake up the status quo of create something new. If you think about it Germany doesn't like change internally they still want to pretend its 1994 and the neo nazis are just the problem here.

 

[Naproxen Sodium]

AfD is pretty milquetoast anyway. OH NO A SLIGHT OPPOSITION. THE VAPORS. Fucking retarded. But no, WE are not the fascists here. Sure thing, Jan.

 

[cigint]

AfD is mere controlled opposition anyway.

"O-oh, our elected representative can't take the office they won? Oy vey, fine ve vill step down".

 

[Kankichi Ryotsu]

Rebellion is baked into the German heart since the days of Arminius

kek, Germany is one of the most cucked countries in the West, not even close.

 

[JosephStalin]

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.

 

[BrownPawsTypedThis]

Das ist doch verrückt

 

[babyDunk]

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

Fucking based.

Only by taking the gloves off can democracy be saved and the correct choices be allowed on the ballot.

Rebellion is baked into the German heart since the days of Arminius.

American occupational forces need to be removed.

THIS! That's what i've been saying.If these amerimutts were to leave, we would rise up and arrest the undemocratic racists even harder!

FACK TRUMP AND TRUMP SUPPORTERS!

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

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.

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

Fringe extremism is when your party is polling ahead of any other in the entire country.

If they don't fight back against this then they'll prove the charges of being controlled opposition.