FAQ: What does the new classification of the AfD mean - and what are the consequences?

The AfD is "secured right-wing extremist." This could also have consequences for party members. A lawyer sees acute need for action, especially in the case of weapons owners.

The constitutional protection classifies the entire AfD as far-right. SPIEGEL editor Ann-Katrin Müller explains how the popular current has prevailed in the party.

This constitutional decision of the Alternative für Deutschland political party plunges its political opponents first into embarrassment.

After the high flight of the AfD in polls follows the crash: The constitutional protection classifies the party as right-wing extremist. Listen, read along, covert investigations become possible. In order to prevent conspiracy theories, transparency and real solutions are needed.

Is polemical critique of migration already anti-constitutional? This impression is given by some examples, which the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection cites as evidence for its new AfD classification. The decision has immediate consequences – far beyond the AfD.

The classification of the AfD as a secure right-wing extremist by the constitutional protection shows: Nancy Faeser ends her term as it was from the beginning: party-politically oriented and ideologically fixed. It is about intimidating dissidents.