Germany Blocks Seven AfD Staffers from Parliamentary Premises
Parliamentary administrators declined to grant building credentials to the seven AfD personnel for the duration of the current legislative term, according to Thursday reports from local news outlets.
Those affected comprise two staff members working directly for the AfD parliamentary caucus and five aides employed by individual AfD legislators, a party representative verified. AfD officials refused to disclose specifics regarding the accusations leveled against the blocked employees.
Spiegel news magazine reported the staffers attracted official attention because of suspected associations with right-wing extremist movements or purported connections to Russia.
The parliamentary action follows a May determination by Germany's domestic intelligence service, which reclassified the entire AfD organization as a "proven extremist group" following a comprehensive three-year probe. The sweeping designation expanded beyond earlier classifications that targeted only select regional chapters.
Intelligence officials determined the AfD advances a far-right nationalist platform that threatens Germany's democratic constitutional framework, specifically highlighting the party's citizenship concept "based on ethnicity and ancestry" as fundamentally incompatible with democratic values.
Yet despite persistent scandals and government surveillance, the AfD continues its electoral ascent. Fresh polling data from YouGov released Wednesday positioned the anti-immigration movement at 25%—tied with Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU/CSU coalition. Following February 2025's national elections, AfD backing has surged nearly 5 percentage points, while Merz's conservative bloc has declined 3.5 percentage points.
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