Overview

• The Bundesverwaltungsgericht in Leipzig rejected the AfD’s non-admission appeals on July 20, confirming its classification as a right-wing extremist ‘Verdachtsfall’ is legally binding.
• The Verfassungsschutz’s May upgrade of the party to ‘gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung’ remains suspended pending a decision by the Potsdam administrative court.
• In Brandenburg the AfD withdrew its emergency injunction against that higher classification and urged Interior Minister René Wilke to publish the Verfassungsschutz’s reasoning memo.
• Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla have announced plans to lodge a constitutional complaint at the Bundesverfassungsgericht to challenge the ‘Verdachtsfall’ label.
• Greens led by Katharina Dröge are pressing federal and state authorities to move quickly toward initiating a formal ban procedure under Germany’s Basic Law.