Saxony's AfD takes legal action against classification as a right-wing extremist organization

The expert opinion itself is now to be enforced with a temporary injunction at the Dresden Administrative Court. As the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) rejected the request in a letter dated December 18, the injunction must be applied for within one month - i.e. by January 18. The aim is to publish the report as soon as it is received, said Deputy State Director Joachim Keiler, who is in charge of the proceedings as a lawyer. "We are not shying away from the dispute." The main proceedings at the administrative court will concern the classification itself. Keiler also did not rule out taking the matter to the Saxon Constitutional Court.

After four years of examination, the LfV Saxony classified the AfD accordingly at the beginning of December. There was no longer any doubt about its right-wing extremist orientation, explained the head of the authorities, Dirk-Martin Christian. The party had previously received such a rating in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. Now it can also be monitored by intelligence services in Saxony. With a view to the legal steps that will now follow, the AfD itself claims, among other things, that in recent years it has only appeared in reports by the LfV as a victim of left-wing violence.