Overview

• The SPD federal party congress on June 29 resolved to prepare an application for a constitutional ban on the AfD and to establish a cross-party Bund-Länder working group.
• The newly formed working group is tasked with gathering evidence of the AfD’s alleged extremist activities for submission to the Federal Constitutional Court.
• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the SPD resolution does not bind his office and confirmed that any ban request will await judicial confirmation of the Verfassungsschutz classification.
• Government spokesman Stefan Kornelius cited Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s preference to politically confront the AfD and flagged that legal steps hinge on pending court rulings.
• Constitutional experts warn that proving antidemocratic intent and securing a two-thirds majority at the Federal Constitutional Court presents formidable hurdles, as past ban attempts have shown.