Status: 08.12.2023, 18:59 PM
By: Nail Akkoyun
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With the state association in Saxony, another part of the AfD is considered to be right-wing extremist.
Dresden – The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony has classified the state association of the AfD in the Free State as a right-wing extremist endeavor. This was announced by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution on Friday in Dresden.
A legal examination lasting several years has shown "beyond doubt" that the AfD state association is pursuing anti-constitutional goals, said Dirk-Martin Christian, president of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. As early as April, the youth organization, the Saxon state association of the Young Alternative, had been classified as a proven right-wing extremist endeavor. The classification offers new opportunities for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
"In the four years of intensive examination, we have collected a large number of statements and political demands, especially from high-ranking functionaries and elected officials of the state party as well as the district associations, i.e. from people with a high degree of representation. Taken together, these prove beyond doubt that the local AfD state association pursues anti-constitutional goals," Christian summed up.
Certainly right-wing extremist: After Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, this is already the third AfD state association
After Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, it is the third state association with such a classification. In Thuringia, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution had already classified the AfD with its controversial state party leader Björn Höcke as confirmed right-wing extremist in March 2021. Saxony-Anhalt was only recently, in November 2023, classified as a confirmed right-wing extremist.
"The state association of the AfD may be heterogeneous in terms of personnel, but in terms of content and program, the so-called solidarity-patriotic camp, which emerged from the former 'wing', whose spiritual father and leader is the right-wing extremist Björn Höcke and which now shapes and dominates the character of the entire state association, predominates," the head of the authority emphasized. Right-wing extremist statements by leading functionaries and elected officials would be noted within the party, without the state party publicly distancing itself or at least critical debate.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution accuses Saxony's AfD of anti-Semitism, among other things
According to the report of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony, numerous substantive positions of the AfD state association are directed against the basic principles of the free democratic basic order. "With regard to immigration, the state party pursues a policy of so-called ethnopluralism, a brand core of political right-wing extremism. According to this, the acquisition of German citizenship would be based exclusively on ethnic-biological or cultural criteria," it said. However, such an understanding of the people is incompatible with the Basic Law.
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The AfD regional association also makes use of common anti-Semitic, mostly conspiracy-ideological positions, which are also regularly used by right-wing extremists and citizens of the Reich. "Anti-Semitism is not directly expressed by leading representatives of the AfD regional association, but is encoded by so-called codes and ciphers, for example via the 'international financial elite'."
Both the federal chairman Tino Chrupalla and the AfD's top candidate for the 2024 European elections, Maximilian Krah, come from Saxony. At the federal level, the AfD is currently classified as a suspected right-wing extremist case by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In the 2019 state election, the AfD in Saxony received 27.5 percent of the second votes. In the latest poll, it reached 33 percent, like the CDU. (nak/dpa)