Overview

• SPD leaders press to prepare an application to outlaw the AfD, renewing calls to gather evidence quickly for a potential filing to the Federal Constitutional Court.
• The party’s plan includes a federal–state working group to compile material and independent experts to assess whether proof meets the legal threshold.
• The domestic intelligence service’s classification of the AfD as an extremist endeavor remains on hold after the party filed legal challenges.
• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt maintains that a court-confirmed finding of the AfD as securely right‑wing extremist should precede any ban attempt.
• CDU lawmaker Sascha van Beek has broken ranks to back a ban, even as many in the Union warn a failed case could boost the AfD and note Karlsruhe’s high bar, which sank past bids such as the 2017 NPD ruling.