Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) has officially labeled Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) a right-wing extremist group, a move that may be laying the groundwork for a potential party ban and silencing the government’s most prominent opposition.
The Cologne-based agency claimed the AfD’s ideology centers around the concept of “ethnicity and ethnic identity”, which is “incompatible with the free and democratic basic order.” According to the BfV, the AfD’s concept of ‘the people’ aims to exclude certain groups from equal participation in society and subject them to unconstitutional discrimination.
“Specifically, for example, the AfD does not consider German citizens with a migration history from predominantly Muslim countries to be equal members of the German people, as defined ethnically by the party,” the BfV alleged.
To many Germans, however, the AfD’s so-called extremist views are merely expressions of legitimate concern over migration, national identity, and public safety—concerns dismissed too easily by the political elite.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, a Social Democrat, immediately endorsed the report, calling the findings “clear and unambiguous.”
Faeser also insisted the BfV operates independently, despite growing doubts about political influence over the agency’s direction.
However, when asked whether a ban on the AfD was imminent, Faeser denied any “automaticity,” while pointedly leaving the door open—a move seen by critics as strategic ambiguity.
Also unsurprisingly, the Greens praised the decision, saying, “The party is not only at odds with our constitution and the free democratic basic order in large parts, but in its entirety.”
None of this should come as a surprise. It is part of a longer exercise by the establishment forces aiming to exclude the AfD from the democratic process. There is too much at stake: a comfortable status quo, with stable revenue streams from mass migration and the pushing of irrational green policies. Also, as long as the AfD is kept from ruling, the final reckoning with the consequences of the German elites’ disastrous ideologies can be postponed.
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