Why Does Germany Want to Ban AfD Party?

Jaime C. July 07, 2025 Germany,

FILE —An election poster of the German Alternative for Germany party (AfD), right, is attached to a lamppost in front of a giant election poster showing a map of Germany, at the headquarters of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 29, 2025. Slogan reads: 'Now AfD'. - Sputnik International, 1920, 07.07.2025

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Popular German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) dares to question censorship, economic decline and the militarization of the country, and that is exactly is why the country's authorities want to ban it, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev, believes.

"AfD is more popular than ever in Germany. Terrified Eurocrats want to ban it — not because it's extreme, but because it dares to question censorship, uncontrolled immigration, militarization, and Germany’s economic decline. Democracy, or fear of it?" Dmitriev said on X.

RDIF CEO added that the energy crisis had destroyed energy-intensive German manufacturing.

In 2023, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (counterintelligence) recognized the AfD branches in Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt as right-wing extremist. In early May 2025, the agency declared AfD to be right-wing extremist throughout the country. This decision allows for an expansion of the arsenal of surveillance tools for the organization and is considered one of the intermediate steps towards banning the political force. AfD had previously overtaken the bloc of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Unions (CDU/CSU), which won the snap elections, in a number of polls.

Alternative for Germany co-chairs Tino Krupalla and Alice Weidel called the party's classification as a right-wing extremist movement a blow to democracy. As a result, AfD filed a lawsuit against the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on May 5. A few days later, the office suspended the status previously assigned to the party.

File picture taken May 1, 2019 shows AfD supporters walkin along a party elections poster in Erfurt, Germany. German media outlets are reporting the country's domestic intelligence agency has put the opposition Alternative for Germany party under observation under suspicion of extreme right sympathies - Sputnik International, 1920, 02.05.2025

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German Counterintelligence Recognizes AfD as Extremist - Statement

2 May, 10:29 GMT

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, commenting on the possibility of banning the Alternative for Germany in the country, said on May 6 that it was impossible to ban all 10 million of its supporters, and also emphasized the need to scrutinize the earlier decision to recognize the party as right-wing extremist.

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