Overview
- Andreas Voßkuhle warned that cooperating with the AfD would be like “going to bed with the devil” and said the party lacks the DNA of a pluralist democracy.
- Voßkuhle cautioned that an AfD state premier could reshape institutions, from school curricula to the judiciary and law enforcement, with national knock‑on effects.
- Udo Di Fabio urged against branding the AfD a Nazi party and said a ban would be premature, emphasizing that any AfD government would still be bound by law.
- The domestic intelligence service’s planned classification of the AfD as a confirmed right‑wing extremist endeavor remains suspended due to the party’s legal challenge, while a federal‑state working group on handling the AfD is in place.
- Polls put the AfD at roughly 25–26 percent nationally and leading in Saxony‑Anhalt and Mecklenburg‑Western Pomerania ahead of 2026 state elections that could set influential precedents.