Overview
- Sebastian Fiedler, the SPD’s interior policy spokesman, argued he would rather block or delete sensitive data than hand it to an AfD-led state government, warning of a "contamination" of security operations.
- Security figures highlight that AfD participation in a state executive would grant administrative access to Inpol, the national police information and wanted-persons system, and Nadis-WN, the intelligence community’s data network.
- The AfD rejected calls to delete or withhold official data as criminal, with Thuringian lawmaker Ringo Mühlmann citing potential violations of data-tampering and breach-of-custody statutes and accusing the SPD of abusing the rule of law.
- Polling cited by INSA places the AfD near 38–40 percent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt ahead of 2026 votes, making a single-party majority plausible in at least one state.
- Authorities have not announced operational contingencies, with reporting pointing to a planned federal–state working group as some experts float drastic steps and others even debate the constitutional option of Article 37.