Germany – AfD party

Parties opposed to the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) continue to block it from exercising its rights—all in the name of stopping “fascism.”

Germany’s self-proclaimed democracy defenders are at it again: blocking a law-abiding party from exercising its rights—all in the name of protecting democracy.

The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU, anti-mass migration party, placed second in Germany’s recent parliamentary elections, earning nearly 21 percent of the vote to the top vote-getter’s, the Christian Democratic Union’s, 28 percent. The AfD placed well ahead of the once-dominant Social Democratic Party (16 percent) and the Greens (11 percent).

It was supposed to be the killer blow to a party which has stalked the nightmares of Germany’s political elite: a bombshell intelligence report with proof that Alternative for Germany [AfD] was a Nazi-style extremist group.

Running to more than a thousand pages, the report by Germany’s BfV domestic intelligence agency announced that the AfD was a “confirmed Right-wing extremist organisation”, opening the door to a total ban on the party.

But instead of turning the AfD into a pariah, the report has triggered a furious row over the rise of censorship in Germany, and damaged relations between its new government and the Trump administration.

It means success.

Suggesting that Islamic culture is not compatible with Christian society, criticising “globalist” elites, claiming that immigration and certain ethnic minorities are linked to higher rates of crime, and even calling for the use of private firms to assist in deportations were all listed as evidence that the populist Alternative for Germany party is a “right wing extremist” organisation.

Keeping the report secret was not intended to protect the domestic spy agency from external threats, but to conceal the investigation’s weak foundation from public scrutiny.

First, the German government pushed out an unvetted report to brand the largest opposition party as ‘right-wing extremist.’ Then, they claimed it had to stay secret to protect sensitive sources. Now it turns out they lied: The entire report is based on public information.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, placed the political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) at the center of national political debate after it, on May 2nd, officially classified the party as a “proven right-wing extremist organization” (gesichert rechtsextrem). This designation, announced with the backing of outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD), is based on a report exceeding 1,100 pages, which was initially kept classified. The institutional rationale was clear: to protect sensitive sources and preserve the agency’s operational methods. However, the official narrative began to unravel when media outlets accessed the full content of the document and published it. Their conclusions are unequivocal: the report contains no classified sources, nor does it include any information that would compromise state security. Rather, the document is an extensive compilation of public statements, social media posts, policy papers, and speeches by party representatives.

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet.

The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), lost the first vote for the Bundestag’s next chancellorship. Never before in German history had a presumptive chancellor been rejected in an initial ballot. But 18 members of Merz’s 328-member governing coalition had bolted and cast their secret votes against him. That betrayal left Merz six votes shy of the bare majority of Bundestag seats (316 out of 630) needed to assume the chancellorship. After a hastily convened second round, Merz pushed his total up to a sufficient 325 votes (with three holdouts, still anonymous), but the damage had been done.

BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence service has withdrawn its newly announced classification of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a confirmed extremist organization — at least temporarily.

Just six days after the agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, also known as the BfV, said it had gathered “definitive evidence” that the AfD seeks to undermine Germany’s democratic order, the BfV told an administrative court in Cologne that it will suspend the classification while legal proceedings are ongoing.

The BfV will now monitor the party only as a “suspected case,” a lower-tier designation that still allows surveillance, but under stricter judicial oversight.

I hope Trump sic’s JD on them.

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), has officially classified the right-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a ‘proven right-wing extremist organisation’. Although the BfV has no powers of its own to take further action against the AfD, the classification alone marks a shocking escalation in the establishment’s crackdown on this insurgent party.

The right-wing populists Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is suing Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, BfV, after it designated the party as a “right-wing extremist” organization, opening the door for constant police surveillance or even banning.

Suspiciously issued just after AfD took over the ruling CDU in the polls and became Germany’s most popular party, BfV’s decision was clearly “politically motivated” and represents a “severe blow to German democracy,” AfD co-presidents Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said in a statement last Friday. They promised to keep fighting for the freedom of expression and challenge the ruling with all legal tools available.

Friedrich Merz’s expected confirmation as Germany’s next leader this week will take place in the shadow of a row about whether to ban the rival far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after it was formally classified as “extremist” by the country’s intelligence services.

Merz, 69, a multimillionaire former corporate lawyer, is set to be elected as chancellor by parliament on Tuesday after his centre-right Christian Democrat Union (CDU) agreed on a “grand coalition” with the Social Democrats following weeks of detailed negotiations.

The Nazis are in charge.

Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams ‘tyranny in disguise’

Germany’s Foreign Office has defended a decision to classify the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as right-wing extremist, after sharp criticism from the White House.

US Vice-President JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as “tyranny in disguise”.

In an unusual move, the foreign office directly replied to Rubio on X, writing: “We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.”

The intelligence agency that made the classification found AfD’s “prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and descent” goes against Germany’s “free democratic order”.