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- **Posted:** 2025-05-02T12:37:05.000+00:00
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Germany labels far-right AfD party as 'extremist'⁣
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Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the far-right Alternative for Germany as an ‘extremist entity that threatens democracy’.⁣
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This is a move enabling authorities to better monitor the party by recruiting confidential informants and intercepting communications.⁣
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The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution said: “Key to our assessment is the AfD’s ethnic-based understanding of the people, which devalues ​​entire population groups in Germany and violates their human dignity.”⁣
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This is reflected in the party’s overall anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim stance”, they added.⁣
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The co-leaders of the AfD said they would take legal action against the classification, describing the decision as a "severe blow to German democracy".⁣
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"The AfD is being publicly discredited and criminalised shortly before change of government," Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said in a statement.⁣
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The party "will continue to defend itself legally against these defamatory statements that endanger democracy," the statement added.⁣
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The AfD party secured 20.8% of the votes at the election, finishing second behind Merz's CDU/CSU bloc who had 28.6% of the vote.⁣
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Recent polls, however, indicate the AfD is closing the gap with the German conservatives.⁣
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A poll published by Forsa last week even put AfD at 26%, ahead of CDU/CSU with 24%.⁣
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#Afd #Weidel #Germany #politics ⁣

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