The lower house of the German Parliament, voted to cut funding far-right National democratic party (NDP). About it reports Reuters.
Decision adopted by 502 votes to 57, with 20 abstentions. In the near future there will be changes in the basic law stipulating that the party that opposes the constitutional order, not entitled to public funding, carried out with taxpayers ‘ money.
The vote in the Bundestag became possible after the constitutional court verdict issued in January 2017. The judges decided that the objectives posed in front of the NDP violate the provisions of the Constitution. “The NDP intends to replace the existing constitutional order, the authoritarian national government, which is based on the idea of “national community” selected on an ethnic basis,” explained one of the judges. While the party court to ban was not because of its insignificance.
Under current rules, the German Constitution, every party that exists in the country, has a right to government funding in that case, if she spent MPs in Parliament at any level. Although NPD no Deputy either in the Bundestag or in local legislatures, and its representatives are present in several municipal councils, which entitles it to receive a million euros per year from the state Treasury. In addition, in 2014, the NDP got one seat in the European Parliament.
The ultra-right have expressed outrage at the decision of the Bundestag, calling it an attack on democratic freedoms.
The national democratic party of Germany — far-right party campaigning with anti-immigrant positions. The NDP believes that membership in NATO and the EU cannot meet the aspirations of the German people, insisting on the revision of the boundaries of Germany.