AfD Sues German Spy Agency After Being Labeled an Extremist Party

The party filed papers in a court in Cologne, where the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, known as the BfV, is headquartered.

Leader of far right AfD Alice Weidel smiles at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. AP Photo/Michael Probst

The Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) political party in Germany sued the country’s domestic intelligence service on May 5 for classifying it as a “right-wing extremist organization.”

The designation subjects the party, which came second in the national elections in February, to greater surveillance from state authorities.