Cologne Administrative Court: AfD should not be categorized as positively right-wing extremist in the meanwhile | EUROtoday

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) shouldn’t be allowed to categorise and deal with the AfD as positively right-wing extremist in the meanwhile. The Cologne Administrative Court has determined that the federal authority should look ahead to the result of the primary proceedings. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution should additionally chorus from publicly saying such a classification in the meanwhile. The AfD’s pressing software was basically accredited.

The resolution might be appealed on the subsequent increased occasion earlier than the Higher Administrative Court for North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster.

In the court docket’s opinion, there may be ample certainty that efforts directed in opposition to the free democratic primary order are being developed inside the AfD. However, this “does not shape it in a way that leads to an anti-constitutional basic tendency being identified in its overall picture”.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had categorized the AfD as right-wing extremist

Last yr, after a number of years of evaluate, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution categorized the AfD as positively right-wing extremist. The home secret service introduced on the time that the suspicion that the occasion was pursuing efforts in opposition to the free, democratic primary order had been confirmed and had largely change into a certainty.

The AfD took authorized motion in opposition to this. She filed a lawsuit and an pressing software with the Cologne Administrative Court as a result of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has its headquarters in Cologne (AZ 13K3895/25 and 13L1109/25). In doing so, she needed to have the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution prohibited from itemizing, classifying and treating her as right-wing extremist.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution then issued a so-called standstill promise. This meant that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution now not publicly described the AfD as a confirmed right-wing extremist effort till a court docket resolution was made.

In addition to the expedited process, there’s a process on the primary difficulty. The authorized dispute over the query of whether or not the AfD might be categorized as right-wing extremist can drag on for a very long time.

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