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ReutersThe German alternative Für Deutschland (AFD) Party was designated as a right -wing extremist by the Federal Office of the State for the Constitution.
The domestic intelligence agency said in a statement that “the understanding of the people and ancestors of those who are widespread in the party cannot be compatible with the Liberal Democratic Party.”
AFD was second in the February federal elections and gained 20.8%of votes in 630 seats.
Congress (Bundestag) will vote next week to confirm the conservative leader Friedrich Merz.
AFD co -leader Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said the decision was “politically motivated.” They argued that the party was “distrustful and crime” just before the government was changed.
The top priority AFD was already observed for extremism suspected in Germany, and the Intelligence Agency was also classified as right -wing extremists in three states in the most popular East.
The agency (Verfassungschutz) said AFD did not regard the “migration background from Muslim countries” as an equal member of the German people.
Stephan Brandner, vice chairman of AFD, said the decision is “complete ridiculous and has nothing to do with law and order.”
However, after the comprehensive review and 1,100 pages of reports, Nancy Faeser, the institution, said that the agency made a clear and obscure decision that “there is no political effect.”
Bundestag vice president Andrea Lindholz said that as a designated right -wing extremist group, AFD should not be handled by other parties, especially parliament.
AFD member states have deserved the chairman of the council committee because of many positions, but Lindholz said that the idea is “I can hardly imagine.”
After the success of the election, the AFD leaders said the so -called firewalls, which prevented other parties from working with them, should end.
Tino Christalla said, “Anyone who builds a firewall will be baked behind it.
Chrupalla, who doubled the market share in four years, still ranked second in the polls of the Merz Conservative Party, despite some scandals, including one famous member who was convicted of the forbidden Nazi slogan use.
Earlier this year, Alice Weidel accepted the term “Remigration”, which refused to define, but it was widely seen as a mass deportation of those with migration backgrounds.
AFD also attracted the support of the Trump administration. Nine days before the election, the US Vice President JD Vance said there was no place for the “firewall”, which met with Weidel in Munich and claimed that freedom of speech was retreated in Europe.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave Weidel for a long time in a vivid chat in X and urged Germans to vote for AFD. Then I repeatedly posted the support of Weidel’s party when I exercised the right to vote.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the German Intelligence Agency (the decision of the German Intelligence Agency was given a new authority to monitor the opposition.

As part of the role of guaranteeing Germany’s “basic order of liberal democracy,” the Korea Intelligence Service is in charge of anti -intelligence and terror threats.
Changes in AFD designation are expected to challenge the court, but it will lower the threshold of the institution using information sources and surveillance in the monitoring of the party.
Some German politicians said the party’s new name would lead to ban.
The German Basic Law (a party that intentionally undermines the function of the basic order of liberal democracy in Germany, according to the Constitution adopted in 1949, four years after the fall of the Hitler’s Nazi regime, can be banned in an armed and aggressive manner.
Domestic information cannot pursue a ban on political parties that can pass two houses of the party, the government or the Constitutional Court, but the latest decisions can encourage others to start the process.
The outgoing minister, Olaf Scholz, warned of falling into a decision, but no one could accept that “the right -wing extremist party is fighting and destroying our democracy inside.”
After the war, the Constitutional Court banned only two parties in the 1950s.
The Christian Democratic Prime Minister of Schlezwig-Holstein, in northern Germany, urged the coming government to start a prohibition of AFD. Daniel Günther told the Spiegel magazine that the party suggested the danger of “social harmony.”
But Michael Ketschmer, the Christian Democratic Party prime minister of the eastern Saxony, quoted, “The enemies of democracy are not entirely by the state.”
In addition to X’s additional position, MUSK claimed that it was “The Central AFD”, which is also the most popular party in Germany on Friday, “an extreme attack on democracy.”
The SPD deputy director of the Social Democratic Party of Serpil Midyatli said that it is black and white that everyone already knows. According to the German media agency DPA, “it is clear that the ban will come.”
Regardless of AFD’s success, she said that the founding fathers of the postwar Constitution tried to prevent this country from returning to the abyss.










