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Aren't they setting up a vote to ban the AfD and confiscate all the party's assets before the election?
It's a bit more complicated than that; There is a multi-party alliance of mainstream politicians who prepare such, but it's not officially supported by any of the leading politicians of any large party afaik (one should be cynical enough to consider they may support it indirectly, though). And at least both Merz (CDU candidate) and Scholz (SPD candidate) are on record saying explicitly that the AfD needs to be beaten in the poll booth, not through judicial means. Then again, neither of the two is known to keep their word.
Also, most legal experts that aren't affiliated with any party consider success quite unlikely, and the AfD has already won a few court cases against the government.
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