Pistorius sees good prospects of success for npd ban application

The application by the federal states underlines the fact that the extreme right-wing party is anti-semitic, racist and contemptuous of humanity and must be banned because of its anti-constitutionality, said the head of lower saxony’s ministry on wednesday at the start of the conference of interior ministers in osnabruck. "If we take our constitution seriously, then a party that is beyond this constitution and actively fights it must be banned."

At the same time, pistorius warned not to let up in the fight against the right-wing. "A ban on the NPD, there can be no doubt, is not a victory over right-wing extremist thought."Nevertheless a prohibition is of central importance, in order to meet the organized right-wing extremism structurally. Where the NPD has been represented in state parliaments so far, the right-wing parties have been cut off from party funding in case of a ban.

NRW interior minister ralf jager (SPD) said in osnabruck that bans are not the only means of combating right-wing extremists, but they are an important one. "A ban is an important sign that our constitutional state is taking consistent action against enemies of the constitution".