{"id":425489,"date":"2025-05-05T10:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/05\/afd-partito-estremista-germania\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:32:50","slug":"german-intelligence-classifies-afd-as-far-right-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/05\/german-intelligence-classifies-afd-as-far-right-group\/","title":{"rendered":"German intelligence classifies AfD as far-right group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – After a lengthy three-year investigation, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany\u00a0ruled that the nationalist and anti-migrant Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/strong> party was “an extreme rightwing organization” and “not compatible with the free democratic order.” The decision reopened the debate over a possible ban on AfD, which at February’s federal\u00a0elections<\/a>\u00a0 was the second most-voted party in the country and is now the main opposition force in the Bundestag.<\/p>\n

In an over\u00a01,000-page report, the German intelligence service states that within the party, “a conception of the people based on ethnicity and descent predominates” and that AfD “aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, subject them to treatment that violates the constitution, and consequently assign them a legally subordinate status.” The party led by Tino Churupalla and Alice Weidel pursues\u00a0an “ethnically based” policy that “downgrades entire population groups<\/strong> in Germany and violates human dignity.”<\/p>\n

While its leaders denounce a “severe blow” to democracy and announce appeals, the US administration goes even further, with the secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/strong>, commenting in a post<\/a> on X, “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That\u2019s not democracy\u2014it\u2019s tyranny in disguise<\/strong>.” Berlin’s Foreign Ministry immediately replied to Washington’s interference: “This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learned from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped<\/strong>,” reads a post on X.<\/p>\n

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Co-presidents of Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland, Alice Weidel and\u00a0Tino Chrupalla (foto: Tobias Schwarz\/Afp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In reality, AfD will be able to continue to operate at the national and state levels, and its dissolution remains a somewhat distant prospect<\/strong>. The parliament or the federal government must file a request to the Constitutional Court to abolish a party, which would then have to examine and rule on the case. But politically speaking, banning AfD would mean eliminating a party voted for only three months ago by more than 10 million German citizens.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The hot potato will pass to Friedrich Merz<\/strong>, leader of the CDU, who is due\u00a0to take office as chancellor next week and recently<\/a> sought AfD’s\u00a0backing on the immigration dossier by breaking the long-standing cordon sanitaire against the far right. The outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz,\u00a0<\/strong>urged caution: “We have to evaluate this classification carefully,” the Social Democratic leader said Friday. According to a survey<\/a>\u00a0published by the German newspaper Bild, 48 percent of German citizens would favor\u00a0the ban<\/strong>, 37 percent opposed it, and 15 percent had\u00a0no clear opinion. However,\u00a0doubts persist: 39 percent of citizens believe that any proceedings against AfD would\u00a0damage democracy, while\u00a041 percent believe the debate would only help the far-right party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfD “is not compatible with the democratic order.” Debate reopens over a possible ban on the party, which has since become the second most-voted in Germany. Outgoing Chancellor Scholz urges caution, while AfD leaders denounce “a severe blow to democracy”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":425467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26580,26267,28861,28857],"class_list":["post-425489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-alternative-for-germany-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425551,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425489\/revisions\/425551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}