Germany’s internal intelligence agency ranked on Friday (2) the ultra-right alternative party for Germany (AFD) as an extremist entity that threatens democracy. The party was second in the federal elections of February.
The agency, based on a specialized 1,100 -page report, says AFD is racist and anti -mulch. The classification allows authorities to increase party surveillance, including recruiting confidential informants and intercepting communications.
Stigma can also impair the party’s ability to attract members, while public funding may be at risk.
AFD, which currently leads a number of opinion polls, has condemned the decision, while political analysts said she risk increasing party support further.
“At the center of our assessment is the concept of ethnic and ancestral people that shapes AFD, which devalues integer segments of the population in Germany and violates its human dignity,” the domestic intelligence agency in a statement said.
“This concept is reflected in the general posture against party immigrants and Muslims.”
The AFD “slaughtered and humiliated” individuals and groups, inciting “irrational fears and hostility towards them,” he added.
The alternative collides for Germany said they would take legal measures against the party’s classification as an extremist, describing the decision as a “severe blow to German democracy.”
“AFD is being publicly discredited and criminalized shortly before the change of government,” said Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla in a statement.
The party “will continue to defend itself legally against these defamatory statements that endanger democracy,” the statement added.
New government
The decision of intelligence occurs days before the conservative leader Friedrich Merz as a new chancellor of Germany and amid a heated debate within his party on how to deal with AFD in the new parliament.
The party has won a record number of chairs, which theoretically gives it the right to preside over several important parliamentary committees.
A important Merz ally, Jens Spahn, asked AFD to be treated as a regular opposition party in parliamentary procedures, arguing that this approach prevents the party from adopting a “victim.”
However, other established parties, as well as many of Spahn’s own conservatives, have rejected this approach-and can use Friday’s news as a justification to block AFD attempts to lead important committees.
“There is a tension between the claim of a party to chair positions based on its size and the freedom of conscience of members of Parliament,” said political scientist Wolfgang Schroeder of the University of Kassel.
The classification may rekindle attempts to ban AFD, but German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose social democrats will be the smallest partner in Merz’s new coalition, has informing the rush to ban AFD.
“I am against a fast shot, we have to evaluate the classification carefully,” he said on Friday (2) in a church convention in the city of Hanover, in the north of the country.
Certain factions of AFD, such as his young wing, had already been classified as extremists, while the party as a whole was classified as a suspicious case of extremist in 2021.
Created to protest against Eurozone rescues in 2013, AFD became a party against immigration after Germany’s decision to host a large wave of refugees in 2015.
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