An internal document from the security authorities places a heavy burden on the AfD-affiliated Patriotic Platform (PP). It would be "significant evidence of anti-constitutional aspiration" of the organization before, according to a note of the North Rhine-Westphalian constitutional protection, which circulates nationwide in security agencies. The paper is available to SPIEGEL.
"The purpose of the PP is to exert influence on the AfD with its right-wing extremist agenda and thus to shape politics," continues the document from North Rhine-Westphalia. In the PP board, there were known defectors from other right-wing extremist organizations.
The North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) had made a public push last week to observe the PP. Bremen and Lower Saxony had announced to observe the Junge Alternative, the youth organization of the AfD.
For a nationwide observation of the AFD is missing according to unanimous assessment of the Constitutional Protection Offices so far court-proof evidence. However, Torsten Voß, the chairman of the working group for constitutional protection at the Conference of Interior Ministers and Hamburg Conservation Chief, perceives a change in the party: "If we look nationwide, the AfD moves to the threshold for observation," said Voß the SPIEGEL. "At the moment this hurdle is not over yet.
Editor's note: In a first version of this text, the name of Torsten Voss was erroneously written as two s.
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