With past and ongoing attempts by Germany’s political establishment to diminish the support base of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) having failed, Germany’s highly politicized domestic intelligence agency is stepping up its efforts to deal a death blow to the country’s second-largest party.
Plans to stamp the entire AfD party with the ‘extremist’ label come ahead of critical elections in East Germany and at the European level, where the AfD is poised to place first—by a large margin—in Saxony, Brandenburg, and Thuringia, and second in EU parliamentary elections.
