Bundestag’s second largest party has been declared an extremist group
The status should facilitate the authorities to use secret monitoring methods – for example, by recruiting secret informants and intercepting communications, Reuters explains.
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Such a definition of the party as an extremist group, as well as the restrictions on the access of members and sympathizers of such structures to the state administration, could also prevent its ability to attract AFD participants. Significant contraction or disappearance of the membership may confuse and paralyze the functioning of the party.
| The party itself can also be dissolved by the court, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that although counterintelligence has argued its extremist status, its ban should not be in a hurry. |
Some factions of « Alternative to Germany », such as its youth wing, have already been classified as extremist, while the party as a whole was from 2021 to the present alleged extremist – a status confirmed twice in court.
- « The concept of people based on ethnicity and origin that prevails in the party is incompatible with a free democratic order, » a statement from the local intelligence agency said.
- « The aim is to exclude certain groups of the population from equal participation in society, to undergo a treatment that violates the Constitution, and thus give them a legally subordinate status. »
- An alternative to Germany (AFD) does not consider German citizens of immigrant origin from mostly Muslim countries as equal members of the German people, the statement added.
- This approach has led to « blackening and blaspheming » of individuals and groups, which ignites « irrational fears and hostility to them, » the text writes.
The announcement stated that the party’s election campaigns were also followed carefully at the regional and federal level. BFV Vice-Presidents Sinan Selen and Dr. Zilke Willems explained how the « alternative to Germany » was confirmed by the right extremist endeavor « was confirmed »
| « This conclusion is based on an extremely careful expert survey, which covers a period of about three years. We have taken into account a large number of statements and positions of high-ranking parties from all over Germany and included in the report and the latest organizational processes and events. It is crucial for our evaluation to the » alternative for Germany « for the ethnicity and origin, which Dignity. |
The decision comes days before conservative leader Friedrich Merz to take an oath on May 6 as a new chancellor of Germany and against the backdrop of a heated debate about how to deal with AFD in the new parliament composition.
| The party has won a record number of seats, which theoretically entitles her to broadcast the chairmen of several key parliamentary committees, although each particular decision will need the support of other parties. |
Analysts said the decision was rising further on the support for an « alternative to Germany » and its explanation for what was happening – that it was removed from « cartel » from established parties. The party has led to several sociological studies in recent weeks.
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AFD is known not only for its pro -Russian positions – especially about Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine – but also for close contacts with China.
On Wednesday, Beijing rejected allegations that he had hired a far -right German MP a day after the man was charged with espionage of Chinese intelligence. The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Guo Jiakun, said in Beijing that speculation about the threat of Chinese espionage was invented and malicious, according to DPA.
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German prosecutors accused Jien G. Tuesday, a German citizen who worked for MP from the European Parliament Maximilian Kra from Alternative to Germany (AFD), in the transmission of sensitive information to Chinese intelligence service and spying Chinese dissidents in Germany.
The man was arrested in the eastern city of Dresden in April 2024 and is said to have received more than 500 documents, « including some that the European Parliament has categorized as particularly sensitive. »
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