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The AfD Saxony has filed a lawsuit because the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified it as a right-wing extremist movement.
The party wants to force the publication of a corresponding report from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
The document is “bizarrely” classified information, said party leader Jörg Urban on Friday in Dresden.
You live in a situation where the AfD is figuratively described as robbers without telling them who they robbed, when and where.
Dresden - That doesn't work.
The AfD had already announced legal steps against the classification shortly before Christmas.
Now she reported enforcement.
Lawyer Joachim Keiler, deputy state chairman of the AfD in Saxony, presented the confirmation of receipt from the Dresden Administrative Court.
In addition, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution is to be prohibited by an interim order from describing the Saxony AfD as “certainly right-wing extremist” until the report is published.
“We know that there are no extremists in our membership,” Urban said.
According to Urban, this is just the first step.
If the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Ministry of the Interior continue to uphold the accusation of extremism, this will be clarified in main proceedings.
The AfD cannot deal with the allegations if it is not even aware of them.
His party wants to know what the report says and wants to debate it publicly.
Urban suspected that the classification was a political maneuver.
It's about influencing the will of voters in the super election year of 2024.
In December 2023, the LfV Saxony classified the Saxon AfD regional association as a “secure right-wing extremist effort”.
There are no longer any doubts about the corresponding orientation, explained LfV President Dirk-Martin Christian.
He sees the AfD in the Free State as networked with other actors in the right-wing extremist scene.
After Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, the Saxony AfD is the third state association with such a classification.
According to Urban, the classification did not hurt his AfD.
He pointed to increasing membership numbers and an increase in donations since then.
Urban also rejected allegations against his party in connection with a secret meeting of right-wing forces in Potsdam in November 2023.
The media company Correctiv reported on this.
A former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement in Austria also spoke to Martin Sellner there, according to his own statements about “remigration”.
When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country - even under duress.
“We don’t have a credibility problem.
We want remigration like almost all parties now,” said Urban.
But they want it within a legal and humane framework.
In the media, however, the AfD is accused of things that have nothing to do with reality.
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