In April, Karlsruhe had upgraded the AfD offspring from a suspected case to “secure right-wing extremist efforts”. According to AfD information, the authority is now taking this back for the time being.
According to the AfD, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution will initially no longer treat and monitor its junior organization, the Junge Alternative (JA), as a secured right-wing extremist movement, but “for the time being” again as a suspected case. The confirmed co-party leader Tino Chrupalla of the German Press Agency (dpa).
The office has promised to “temporarily suspend” the classification and have also “deleted all press releases about it,” he said. “As a result, YES – as of today – is no longer a secure endeavor, is not treated as such and is not observed as such.” The background is therefore a corresponding urgent procedure that the AfD and JA had brought against the classification of the JA at the Cologne Administrative Court.
A spokeswoman for the authority said when asked that the Federal Office would not comment publicly on the matter due to the ongoing proceedings and out of respect for the court. A spokesman for the administrative court said when asked that the office had given a so-called standstill commitment in order to enable the court to properly examine the factual and legal situation given the urgency. He could not provide any information on further details in the basically non-public procedure.
“Secured right-wing extremist endeavor”
At the end of April, the domestic secret service announced that the JA would be classified and observed as a secured right-wing extremist effort in the future. The organization had previously been listed as a so-called suspected case. In addition, two other groups of the so-called New Right – the Institute for State Policy (IfS) and the association “One Percent” – were named.
“There is no longer any doubt that these three groups of people are pursuing anti-constitutional efforts,” said the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang. In a statement from his agency, it said: “The JA propagates a folkish concept of society that is based on basic biological assumptions.”
In the urgent application against this upgrade filed by the AfD and JA at the Cologne Administrative Court at the beginning of the week, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is accused, among other things, of “interfering with the democratic competition shortly before the upcoming state elections in Bavaria and Hesse”, at a time when the AfD was in a so-called survey high.
Source: Stern
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