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AfD boss Jörg Meuthen (archive recording)
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The AfD wants to prevent the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution from classifying it as a suspected case in court.
The party is therefore suing the Cologne Administrative Court against the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) located there.
The AfD has submitted two lawsuits and two urgent motions, said a court spokeswoman for the dpa news agency.
On the one hand, the right-wing populists are requesting that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution be forbidden to classify them as suspected cases and to make this public.
In addition, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is to be forbidden from disclosing how many members the so-called "wing" had until it closed itself or, according to information from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, still has it today.
Among other things, the AfD invokes the parties' right to equal opportunities.
The court spokeswoman announced an interim decision for Monday, a so-called hanging decision.
This is a provisional decision that can be made before the urgent application is made, i.e. especially at short notice.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution supposedly wants to make a decision on how to deal with the AfD in the coming week.
Accordingly, the party should be declared a suspected right-wing extremist case (read more here).
Such a categorization, as well as a classification as certain extremist tendencies, can lead to an observation with intelligence means.
The AfD leadership had already announced a lawsuit on Thursday.
"Should the BfV officially declare the AfD to be a suspected case, we will use all legal means to counteract it - and be successful in the foreseeable future," said federal chairman Jörg Meuthen.
"Because the legal and factual prerequisites that are absolutely necessary for an observation are simply not available."
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