The German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser presented an action plan to fight the extreme right. The measures are intended to go against their Sources of funding. The decision was made after several popular mobilizations that were carried out against the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).
In January, a secret meeting of right-wing extremists to coordinate actions against migrants and caused a large part of society to take to the streets to protest. The mobilizations were supported by the German head of government, the federal chancellor. Olaf Scholz.
Germany: the details of the government’s measures against the extreme right
At a press conference in Berlin, Faeser detailed the measures to combat what he considers to be “the greatest threat to the democratic order“.
First of all, he assured that what they want is “destroy far-right networks“For that, they explained what they want.”deprive them of their income and take away their weapons,” the AFP news agency reported.
The document includes the creation of a “early detection unit“of possible manipulations from abroad and influence campaigns, Feaser said about the proposal.
The plan is part of a package of 13 measures which the minister presented together with the directors of Interior Intelligence and Police. In that sense, they will seek to expand the powers of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution so that it can more easily combat the sources of financing of the networks of extreme right.
As the minister explained, with a modification of the legislation on the secret services, it would be enough to close bank accounts since the possibility of a “potential threat“to public order.
In the new document, the German Government states that the right-wing extremists They want to undermine confidence in the stability and capacity of the State to act and maintain that they share this objective with some foreign actors who also have an interest in weaken democracy.
In the proposal they also warned that “autocratic states use fake accounts To create artificial reach on the Internet, they invent stories with images based on artificial intelligence (AI) and fake credibility with copies of newspaper websites.
For the Executive, these campaigns are used to manipulate free opinion information and political debateso the new early detection unit aims to recognize this type of actions in advance.
Alternative for Germany, the far-right party
AfD is a very important far-right party that manages to collect around 23% of the votes. In addition, it is the second most popular force at the national level, after the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)with an openly racist, anti-immigration and anti-European speech.
Protests against the party broke out after the research center Correctiv revealed about a meeting of right-wing extremists. As it turned out, the meeting was held to discuss, in the event of joining the Government, the deportation of all those immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and even Germans with migratory roots, that is, children of foreigners born in Germany.
Because of this, in Berlin, Homburg, Eisenach and other German cities hundreds of people gathered in various demonstrations to demonstrate against the rise of far-right movements.
Source: Ambito
