The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony has been authorized to classify the Saxony branch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a securely right-extremist endeavor. This decision was made by the Saxon Higher Administrative Court on Tuesday, dismissing the appeal against a decision by the Administrative Court in Dresden. The decision is final, according to the court.
In its ruling, the court stated that the AfD’s local branch did not timely challenge the interpretation of the concept of endeavors against the free democratic basic order by the administrative court. The same applies to the concepts of human dignity and the concept of the democratic principle as a constitutional component of the free democratic basic order. Moreover, the “frequently presented facts in literal speech and under the display of screenshots” were not refuted or questioned by the local branch, according to the higher administrative court.
The question of how many sympathizers of the so-called “wing” within the local branch’s ranks are affiliated with it is deemed insignificant in light of the fact that the key sympathizers of the local branch have consistently shown solidarity with the wing’s ideology, the ruling stated. In the face of the “various other findings of the administrative court” it is “irrelevant” how much of the wing’s ideology is anchored in the AfD’s state executive in Saxony, the ruling continued.
“Since the evaluation of the many other, not effectively questioned facts” leaves “no further doubt” about the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s assessment, “regardless of whether the sympathizers of the wing also influence the political orientation of the applicant” the judges concluded.