Germany: After leaked deportation plans, civil society urges ban on far-right AfD
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Germany's far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party is gaining momentum. For the past few months, it has been capitalising on widespread fears among the population over the war in Ukraine, immigration and inflation, as well as the challenges faced by the ruling coalition. The AfD has been on the radar of German intelligence services for several years, and some regional branches of the party are clearly identified as a threat due to their radicalism. But it was the revelations from investigative media outlet Correctiv, whose journalists documented a secret meeting between AfD members and neo-Nazis to discuss a plan to deport foreign or foreign-born individuals, that triggered mass protests. That meeting has reignited debate on banning the party, as our correspondents report.