The AfD is going to the next instance in the legal dispute over an observation of the entire party by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: The party's federal executive board has decided to appeal against the judgment of the Cologne administrative court in March, as party leader Tino Chrupalla confirmed on Wednesday.
The newspaper "Die Welt" reported about it first.
On March 8, the court in Cologne dismissed a lawsuit by the AfD and ruled that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution could classify and monitor the party as a so-called suspected case.
The court explained that there were sufficient indications of anti-constitutional efforts within the party.
Under certain conditions, the domestic secret service could use it to monitor AfD communications, use undercover agents or use other intelligence tools.
The judgment was not yet final.
According to the AfD, it had to wait a long time for the written reasons for the verdict.
This also showed that the reasoning of the judges was not comprehensible, said a party spokesman for the "world".
The classification as a suspected case is “unjustified in every respect”, which is why the AfD will fight back “with all means”.
"We firmly assume that the next higher authority will agree with us in this regard," said the spokesman.