In Saxony-Anhalt it is logical that the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution is now observing the entire AfD state association.

Because this dominates the still active supporters of the officially dissolved wing, which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had classified in March 2020 as "certain right-wing extremist efforts".

If the wing sets the tone for the whole party, then the observation of the entire AfD there is very close.

It has been like this for a long time in Thuringia and Brandenburg, where the state offices also monitor the entire state associations of the AfD. The fact that Saxony-Anhalt was added almost five months before the state elections illustrates a development at the state level that can also be explosive for the federal AfD.