Overview
- Saxony’s interior ministry has circulated a uniform handbook for ministries and state authorities that sets procedures for handling staff who belong to the AfD, with the police to receive a separate directive.
- The guidance states that membership in the party does not by itself violate a civil servant’s duty to uphold the constitution.
- Disciplinary action requires proof of active, organized advocacy for the AfD, with possible suspicion triggered by running as a candidate or publicly supporting the party on social media.
- Supervisors may not ask about or search for party membership without cause, and any inquiry must rest on a concrete third‑party indication such as press photos showing participation at AfD demonstrations.
- Measures up to dismissal are possible only if a full review shows an ‘inner abandonment’ of democratic principles, a standard framed against the state intelligence service’s 2023 extremist classification of Saxony’s AfD that the party is challenging in Dresden’s administrative court.