An alternative to Germany recognized as an extremist organization. There is a party reaction
“AfD is publicly discredited and criminalized just before the change of government,” said Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla in a statement.
The party “will continue to defend itself legally against these slanderous claims that threaten democracy” – it was written in a statement. It was estimated that the BFV decision was politically motivated.
AFD recognized as an extremist organization
BFV qualified on Friday AFD as a terrorist organization that threatens democracy. The office emphasized that the dominant concept of the nation in the party is based on ethnic categories and “aims to exclude certain groups of population from equal participation in society and treating them in a way that violates the constitution, and thus giving them a legally subordinate status.”
The classification of AfD as an extremist organization will allow the authorities to use classified methods of monitoring the activities of this group, which took second place in the February parliamentary elections.
The BFV decision does not mean the group's outdoor. Only the Constitutional Tribunal may decide about it at the request of one of the two chambers of parliament (Bundestag or Bundesrat) or the government.
