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Bavarian court enables German counterintelligence to monitor AfD

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 1 Jul 2024 19:23
3 Min Read

The domestic intelligence service has designated three AfD chapters in Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt as "extremists".

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    Protesters in Germany in the city of Essen on June 29 as the far-right AfD opened a convention (AP)

The Munich Administrative Court rejected Monday the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's claim against the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which accused the AfD of right-wing extremism, allowing the agency to continue monitoring the party, media reports suggested.

Muenchner Merkur newspaper reported that the surveillance began in 2022 and is anticipated to provide a report that will either corroborate or disprove the first allegation.

The federal agency's decision to designate the party as "suspected of right-wing extremism" was valid according to a higher administrative court in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia in May.

The domestic intelligence service has designated three AfD chapters in Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt as "extremists".

Late last month, AfD member of parliament Eugene Schmidt told Sputnik that the attempt to outlaw the right-wing AfD party is an anti-democratic process that shows the fear of the German political elite, especially after its performance in the 2024 European Parliament elections.

German politician Marco Wanderwitz at the time declared that he had persuaded a sufficient number of German parliamentarians to file a move to outlaw the AfD due to purported affiliations with far-right extremists.

If the Bundestag goes ahead with the proposal, the Federal Constitutional Court would have to decide whether to consider the AfD's potential ban.

Schmidt said, "It is unknown whether this plan will succeed, but the attempt to ban a democratically elected party, which enjoys enormous support in Germany, demonstrates the anti-democratic attitude of the establishment. At the same time, it shows its desperation: apparently they cannot find any other way to fight the AfD other than to ban it".

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Protesters, police clash at start of far-right AfD congress in Essen

Germany's far-right AfD reaffirmed its desire to ascend to power in Germany as its party conference began Saturday with clashes between protestors and police, just weeks after it achieved record EU election results.

Approximately 1,000 police officers were deployed in the western city of Essen, where demonstrators reported 50,000 people marched toward the congress.

Tino Chrupalla, co-president of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), told about 600 delegates attending the two-day gathering, "We want to govern, first in the east (of Germany), then in the west, then at federal level."

Police reported that 11 policemen were wounded and the police in North Westphalia, which includes Essen, announced on X that some demonstrators attacked security forces.

Tens of thousands of Antifa members and their leftist supporters mobilized today in Essen, Germany to try to shut down the @AfD Party conference.

Police had to use batons and pepper spray to repeal them when they tried rushing the building.

The AfD is a popular right-wing… pic.twitter.com/H8Y8tf6wLf

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 29, 2024

In the recent European Parliament elections in Germany, the AfD secured a notable second-place position, marking a substantial improvement from its 2019 performance.

The party advocates for stricter immigration controls and seeks a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine, among other policy objectives.

The AfD congress takes place ahead of three critical elections in September in states that were previously part of communist East Germany, where the AfD has been leading opinion polls.

"We are here and we will stay," declared party co-president Alice Weidel, opening the congress to resounding applause and maintaining that "like all political parties," the AfD has a right to hold a congress.

Weidel and Chrupalla were re-elected as party leaders for another two years.

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