A premature application to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party would possibly even be helpful for the party in the upcoming German state elections, according to Günter Krings, a spokesman for legal policy in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. “We must fight the AfD, including its sub-organizations, first and foremost politically and examine very carefully in any banning procedure whether it could do more good than harm to this party, at least in the short term,” the former parliamentary state secretary in the German ministry of the interior told dpa. As an “ever-increasing radi…