The German Alternate Fut German Land (AFD) party has been designated as a right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for constitutional protection.
“The ethnicity and ancestral understanding of the prevailing people within the party is incompatible with a free democratic order,” the national intelligence agency said in a statement.
The AFD placed second in the federal election in February, winning a record 152 seats in the 630-seat Congress with 20.8% of the votes.
Congress, or the host, will vote next week to confirm with conservative leader Friedrich Merz as prime minister and lead the coalition with the Social Democrats on the left of the center.
The far-right AFD has already been under observation of German extremism suspicions, and the Intelligence Agency has also classified it as a right-wing extremist in the three eastern states that are most popular.
The agency, or Verfassungschutz, specifically said that the AFD does not consider citizens of “the background of migration from primarily Muslim countries” as equal members of Germans.
Retiring Home Minister Nancy Pheaser said after a comprehensive review and a 1,100-page report, the agency had made a clear and clear decision with “no political influence.”
Germany’s national intelligence agency is responsible for both anti-intelligence and investigations into terrorist threats.
Changes to the AFD designation could be challenged in court, but it could potentially reduce agency thresholds using surveillance in informants and surveillance.
The domestic intelligence agency cannot promote a party ban that can only pass the legislature, government, or constitutional courts, but its latest decision could encourage others to begin the process.
Serpil Midyatli, assistant leader of the Social Democrat SPD, said that what everyone already knows is black and white now. She said, according to the German press DPA.
Regardless of the successful election of the AFD, she said the founder of Germany’s postwar constitution tried to ensure that the country was not returned to the deep by.
