The protection of the constitution classes AfD as secure right -wing extremist

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) has the AfD classified as secured right -wing extremist. The domestic intelligence agency announced that the suspicion that the party pursued against the free democratic basic regulations had confirmed and compressed in significant parts.

« The ethnic-parent understanding in the party is not compatible with the free democratic basic order, » said the security authority. It aims to exclude certain population groups from an equal social participation. « Specifically, the AfD, for example, considers German citizens with migration history from Muslim countries as not equivalent members of the German people defined by the party ethnically, » says the communication of the domestic secret service.

The party’s statements and positions and leading AfD representatives violate the principle of human dignity, explained the vice presidents of the authority, Sinan Selen and Silke Willems. This is decisive for the assessment that has now been made.

Three AfD state associations had previously been secured right-wing extremist

The state offices for the protection of the constitution in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt had previously classified the respective AfD state associations as secure right-wing extremist endeavors.

After the media had reported a suspected classification of the entire party in February 2021 as a so -called suspicion, the protection of the constitution had to wait around a year at the behest of the Cologne Administrative Court until he was able to publicize this assessment and observed the party accordingly. In May 2024, the Higher Administrative Court of Münster ruled that the Protection of the Constitution rightly classified the AfD as a right -wing extremist suspicion. The legal dispute goes even further.

This changes through the assessment of the protection of the constitution

Even in the event of an observation as a suspected case, the use of intelligence agents is already allowed. These include the use of so -called V -people – these are people with access to internal information. Observations or image and sound recordings are also allowed. When selecting and using the funds, however, the principle of proportionality must be preserved.

In the case of a observation object that is extremist as secured, the threshold drops for the use of such means. The observation by the BFV has nothing to do with a ban on partying. Because this can only be requested from the Federal Constitutional Court by the Bundestag, Federal Council or the Federal Government. However, one of the three constitutional organs could feel encouraged by the new assessment of the domestic message service to make such an application.

The basis of the decision now made is an extensive report of the BFV, which is only intended for internal use. A publication of the internal working paper, in which knowledge from the past Bundestag election campaign has also been incorporated, is not intended. (dpa)