More and more politicians are calling for a monitoring of the AfD due to their close proximity to organizations like Pegida. However, this criteria must be met, which will be interpreted by supporters and opponents differently.
The activities of the German domestic intelligence service is regulated in the Federal Constitution protection act. Accordingly, the task is to collect and analyse information about…
1. Efforts directed against the free, democratic basic order, the existence or security of the Federation or of a country
2. security at risk or secret service activities for a foreign Power
3. Efforts through the use of force or acts Preparatory of the foreign interests of Germany, threaten
4. Efforts, which are directed against the ideas of international understanding, especially against the peaceful coexistence of peoples.
And evaluated, the information is Essentially collected in two Ways:
1. through open, generally accessible sources, such as Newspapers, leaflets, programs, and calls, but also public events
2. through intelligence methods, such as the recruited persons from extremist circles (V-people), disguised observation, and the of judges to approve Surveillance of electronic communications.
With this brochure, the Constitution informs the protection about organizations that are prohibited to the part of
From the point of view of the Federal government, there is a lack of the requirements to observe the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a Whole. This assessment has also changed under the impact of the events in Chemnitz, nothing. In the Saxon city, it comes after the violent death of a German – suspicion, – a, Syrians and Iraqis – since the days of rallies and riots against foreigners and refugees.
Bremen and lower Saxony to watch the AfD-young Young Alternative
On the demonstrations, the boundaries between the openly xenophobic groups such as the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident (Pegida), and the AfD is becoming increasingly blurred. The Thuringian AfD-Chef Björn Höcke participated in the weekend at a Pegida protest March. Such incidents prove from the point of view of the Deputy of the Bundestag Chairman Thomas Oppermann (SPD), the “work-piece interaction of AfD and neo-Nazis”.
At the country level, is now moving in the matter. Bremen and lower Saxony to monitor, Recently, the AfD-young Boy Alterntive (YES). He had decided in the past week to watch the YES, said lower Saxony’s interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) on Monday. It was an anti-constitutional organization. The decision had nothing to do with the events in Chemnitz.
Federal interior Minister Seehofer (R) and the protection of the Constitution-chief Maaßen see no reason to watch the AfD
In the protection of the Constitution report for the year 2017, the AfD is, in spite of their prior Chemnitz recognizable contacts in the right environment, not only indirectly – in connection with the phenomenon of left-wing extremism. An example can be mentioned, among others, the partly violent protests against the G20-summit in Hamburg, Germany. In the field of action of “anti-fascism” was the main focus in addition to the ongoing “fight” against right-wing extremists against the Background of the election, “on the mobilization against the AfD”.
Why are parts of the Left still be observed
Whether individual AfD-a politician or a party flows, in view of the current developments in the focus of the constitutional protection that is pure speculation. It is different with the party of the Left. For many years, openly extremist structures be observed””. To do this, because of their programmatic orientation, among other things, the “Marxist Forum” (MF), the “anti-capitalist Left” (AKL) and the “Communist platform” (KPF) from the point of view of the constitutional protection. The leader of the PCF was, for a long time now a group leader in the Bundestag ascended Sahra wagenknecht.
Thuringia’s government chief Bodo Ramelow (Left) was for many years observed unlawfully from the protection of the Constitution
In the past, many Left politicians have been observed, including servant’s predecessor, Gregor Gysi, Bundestag Vice-President Petra Pau and the incumbent Prime Minister of Thuringia, Bodo Ramelow car. Whether and what information about you is collected, retained the protection of the Constitution. Ramelow fought so long and ultimately before the Federal constitutional court against the observation and Monitoring by the domestic intelligence service.
NPD is still on the visor
In the area of the right-wing extremism will continue to be observed in the national democratic party of Germany (NPD), but also “The rights” and “The third way”. In the case of the NPD showed, however, several times, what the limits of the protection of the Constitution and the law of seed may encounter. Two prohibition proceedings against the programmatically failed to open anti-constitutional party. The first in 2003, because of the many V-people of the constitutional protection in the NPD top, the second in 2016 due to a lack of political relevance of a party represented in any Parliament.