Overview
- The Saxony branch of AfD filed a case at the Dresden Administrative Court to stop the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution, a domestic intelligence service, from labeling or monitoring it as a confirmed right‑wing extremist effort.
- The court confirmed receipt of the lawsuit and gave the intelligence office three months to submit its statement.
- The complaint also asks judges to declare the earlier designation unlawful, which would require the agency to withdraw it.
- Saxony’s intelligence office issued the label in 2023 using a report that was not published in full, and AfD state leader Jörg Urban called the allegations “absurd.”
- An earlier emergency bid failed in January 2025 when the Higher Administrative Court in Bautzen said there were sufficient factual indications of aims against human dignity and the democratic principle.