The AfD wants to proceed with a court urgent petition against the classification of the party as a "test case" by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). This has been decided by the AFD federal executive, said the country spokesman in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and deputy leader of the AFD in the Bundestag, Leif-Erik Holm at a state party convention in Lübtheen. This includes an emergency application in court.
The party also wanted to file a criminal complaint because journalists would have received the classified report. His party has no knowledge of the content of the report and will therefore sue for access to the file.
The federal executive also decided on Friday evening to submit a complaint to the new BfV head Thomas Haldenwang, said Holm. The classification of his party as a "test case" had to do with the new leadership of the domestic intelligence service, said Holm. Haldenwang had followed Hans-Georg Maassen, who had been accused of advising AfD politicians.
"Wings" and boy alternative suspected cases
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) had declared the AfD as a whole a test case and is thus more closely monitoring it. The authority wants to look more closely at the right-wing nationalist wing and the Junge alternative: they were declared a suspected case.
In case of suspicion, there must be "strong evidence" that it is an "extremist effort". Here, the storage of personal data is allowed, which is not allowed in a test case.