Berlin, May 3 -- Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been designated an extremist movement by the country's counterintelligence service.
"The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has recognized Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a confirmed right-wing extremist movement ... The understanding of ethnicity and origin of the people, which prevails in the party, is incompatible with the free democratic basic order," the statement read.
The AfD branches in Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt were declared right-wing extremist by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 2023. This decision allows the federal authorities to expand their arsenal of surveillance means for the part...