The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, as the BfV counterintelligence is officially called, began intensive monitoring of AfD youth in 2019 on suspicion of extremism. “Today there is no doubt that the aforementioned three groups are making efforts incompatible with the constitution,” Haldenwang emphasized.
According to the newspaper Bild, the new classification could have an impact on the ability of members of these organizations to obtain employment in the public sector or obtain a firearms license.
The BfV claims that the BfV youth organization demonstrably disparages the democratic system of the Federal Republic. According to counterintelligence, the group also purposefully excludes German citizens from the immigrant community from society and even describes people of non-European origin as fundamentally unintegrable.
AfD has 80 MPs
The AfD was founded in 2013 as a Eurosceptic party that rejects the common European currency and European integration. It later moved further to the right in opinion, after which it became the most successful far-right party in Germany since the end of the war. Today, it has 80 members in the 736-member Bundestag.
Her preferences range between 15 and 17 percent in current surveys. The AfD also benefits from German dissatisfaction with energy prices and rejects Germany’s military aid to Ukraine.
Embarrassment of the divided AfD. She submitted two candidates, she was banned from participating in local elections
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