Far-Right politicians in Germany could be banned from running for office under plans by the incoming government, echoing a decision in France to block Marine Le Pen from a presidential bid.

Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.

“To strengthen the resilience of our democracy, we are withdrawing passive suffrage [the right to contest elections] in cases of multiple convictions of incitement to hatred,” states an extract of the two parties’ draft agreement, according to German newspaper Die Welt.

The paper adds that the reforms, which could ban convicted extremists from parties such as the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD), are part of efforts to tackle “terrorism, anti-Semitism, hatred and incitement...to hatred”.

It comes after Ms Le Pen, the leader of the far-Right National Rally party in France, was banned from politics for five years after a court convicted her of embezzling EU funds.

The verdict, which also imposed a €100,000 (£83,000) fine and a suspended prison sentence, will prevent Ms Le Pen from contesting the 2027 presidential election – which she may have gone on to win.