Overview

• The Brandenburg Verfassungsschutz officially classified AfD Brandenburg as a firmly right-wing extremist movement after the party withdrew its interim injunction in mid-July.
• Interior Minister René Wilke and Verfassungsschutz head Wilfried Peters will present and upload the full classification memo at a press conference on August 14.
• Publication had been stalled because the party failed to provide consent or redaction requests for the names of individuals without leadership roles.
• The memo finds that AfD Brandenburg holds xenophobic, partly racist and anti-Muslim positions and advocates revolutionary change to abolish pluralism.
• The AfD’s substantive lawsuit against the extremist designation remains pending before the Verwaltungsgericht Potsdam.