Germany temporarily suspends the classification of AFD as a “extremist” party

Intelligence services made their decision based on an internal report that concludes that the ideology of the AFD “devalues ​​to whole population groups in Germany and undermines their human dignity”

The Internal Intelligence Service of Germany has temporarily suspended the classification as a “extreme right group” of Alternative for Germany (AFD), AFP reports.

This will be so Waiting for a party resource to be resolved against the decision. AFD rejects the decision of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV), the court said in a statement. The date of the decision is unknown.

During the suspension the BFV will withdraw from its website the press release of May 2 on this classification and for the moment will not apply police surveillance reinforced to the party.

The announcement of last Friday of the classification of the party, second in the last legislative elections, as “extremist” has caused political tensions inside and outside Germanyin particular with the United States, whose president, Donald Trump, has shown his support for AFD.

Intelligence services made their decision based on an internal report of more than a thousand pages prepared over several years than It concludes that the Ideology of AFD “Devalizes whole groups of the population in Germany and undermines their human dignity,” which “is not compatible with the fundamental democratic order.”