AfD: "A hard blow to German democracy"
Published May 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Foreign Affairs. The AfD is reacting strongly to the German security service's decision to classify the party as "far-right". At the same time, the German left, led by the Social Democrats, is now moving forward with its attempt to completely ban the challenger party, which in recent polls has been the country's largest party, reports Junge Freiheit.


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The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has classified the entire Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a "right-wing extremist movement", which opens the door for the regime to infiltrate, conduct mass surveillance and generally attempt to sabotage the largest opposition party.

The spy agency refers to the party's "ethnically based popular understanding" as incompatible with the anti-racist constitution that the US forced Germany to adopt during occupation in 1949. The decision is strongly condemned by the AfD leadership, while a number of other parties are now using it to demand a total ban on the party.

– This is a hard blow to German democracy, say AFD party leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla in a joint comment in which they accuse the security services of criminalizing the party.

The duo claims that the decision is politically motivated, especially since AFD is leading as Germany's largest party in today's polls.

The AfD leader also emphasizes that the security service's decision is not legally binding and that the party will fight it through legal channels.

Beatrix von Storch, AfD vice-chairwoman, calls the measure an "attack on democracy" and warns that it could pave the way for an authoritarian state.

To justify the decision, the BfV points out that representatives of the party have expressed the view that Germans are something more than people who live in Germany and have a German passport. The agency believes that this view violates the anti-German injunctions of the US-imposed constitution and that it prohibits defining Germans as a people.

The decision is welcomed by the other parties, however, who have watched the AfD's rise in public opinion with horror. Among them is Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who claims that the security service acted independently and that there is no political influence behind the decision. She also notes that the decision to classify the AfD as far-right does not "automatically" lead to the party being banned in the near future, but that the banning process must now be put into place.

It is specifically the SPD, the Greens and the left-wing party Die Linke that are pushing for a total ban, but representatives of the "right" in the form of the Christian Democrats have also been pushing. The SPD's vice-chairman, Serpil Midyatli, is one of the strongest advocates for a ban.