The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has recognized the Alternative for Germany (AfD) branch in Saxony as a ‘right-wing extremist organization’.
After a four-year observation period, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony recognized the local branch of the Alternative for Germany as a “right-wing extremist organization.” “AfD is not interested in an objective discussion of the political situation, but in the general degradation of our democracy,” the agency’s staff wrote in the report.
– In the AfD, people expressing far-right conspiracy theories and people hostile to the constitutional order are becoming increasingly vocal – said the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German civilian counterintelligence agency), Thomas Haldenwang, quoted by the AfD . dpa agency.
Previously, a similar decision regarding the regional branches of the AfD was issued by the Offices for the Protection of the Constitution in the states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt.
The Alternative for Germany was founded in 2013. In the last parliamentary elections it introduced 78 deputies to the Bundestag.
The AfD is rising in the polls
Activists and supporters of Alternative for Germany have reasons to be satisfied. Despite the censorship in the media and the ‘cordon sanitary’ imposed on the formation by all other parties, the party’s support is growing in the polls.
Let us not forget that the AfD overtook the SPD in June. In a survey by the Forsa institute for RTL and NTV television stations, the party considered extreme right received 19 percent, and the Social Democracy 18 percent. Since then, the right wing’s lead over the group of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Olaf Scholz, has grown.
However, according to a poll by the Insa Institute for ‘Bild am Sonntag’, the AfD can count on 22 percent. to vote. The CDU/CSU, the Christian Democratic Union, remains in the lead with a gain of 27 percent. support.
As “Die Welt” noted, the results of the formations that form the coalition currently governing Germany “remain at a historically low level.” The social democratic SPD received 18 percent. votes, and its coalition partners: the Greens – 13 percent, FDP – 7 percent. 5% of people would vote for the extreme left Die Linke. respondents, and for the other parties – 8%. respondents.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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