Sourdine during the electoral campaign, the debate on the ban on the far -right alternative party Für Deutschland (AFD) should start again in Germany.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution, an agency in charge of internal intelligence, has indeed classified, Friday May 2, the movement as “Confirmed right extremist”indicating that “Indices according to which AFD would have aspirations against the fundamental liberal and democratic order” have become in his eyes “Certitudes”.
The agency has been investigating for about three years in the qualification of the party, which arrived second in the elections of February 23 with almost 21 % of the votes. She initially planned to reveal the fruit of her investigations at the end of 2024 before giving up it, fearing to interfere with the campaign which started due to the holding of this early ballot. Perhaps for the same reasons, she finally published her decision at a time of quasi-vacance of power in Berlin: the outgoing coalition of Olaf Scholz is on the departure and the government of the future Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, must be formally inducted Tuesday, May 6 at the Bundestag. AFD nevertheless denounced a decision on Friday “Obviously motivated by political reasons” and a “Hard blow for German democracy”recalling that it remains at the top of the surveys.
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