US EditionGermany's Intelligence Agency Classifies AfD as an 'Extremist' Organization
- Germany's domestic intelligence agency designated the Alternative for Germany party as a right-wing extremist organization on May 2, 2025.
- The decision followed a comprehensive 1,100-page audit that found the AfD's ethnicity- and ancestry-based ideology incompatible with Germany's democratic order.
- The agency highlighted the AfD's efforts to exclude and subject non-ethnic Germans, especially immigrants from Muslim countries, to unequal and unconstitutional treatment.
- AfD won 152 seats or 20.8% of the Bundestag in February 2025, making it the second-largest party, and the classification now allows intensified surveillance including informants and intercepts.
- The designation may restrict AfD's ability to attract members and increases monitoring but stops short of banning the party, which requires parliamentary and court approval.
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