If this is thought to be dangerous to democracy, then why not just ban political parties?

Germany, for instance, has a long history behind its modern practice of banning political parties.

The new government banned all political parties, their activity being only suspended before that.

After he became the president, Yaméogo banned other political parties.

Obviously that is no excuse for Turkey to ban political parties as well.

Of course, banning political parties is generally a bad idea, although there are exceptions to that rule.

They also said that banning religious political parties was already a matter of law, but now had been "elevated" to the Constitution.

Lehigh University has just banned parties on campus without a staff member or other adult present.

Parliament did vote to ban far-right parties, including the Republicans, from taking part in the election.

Democratic states are convinced that banning political parties hardly constitutes a solution.