AfD ban proceedings not an official topic at the Interior Ministers' Conference

Berlin. A possible AfD ban will not be an official topic at the federal and state interior ministers' conference in Bremerhaven, which begins Wednesday. The RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) learned this from security sources. "There is no proposal for this," they said. "Because the issue is still being debated. And the CDU/CSU is strongly opposed to a ban." A ban will only be discussed in the unofficial part, at the so-called "fireside meeting."

At the beginning of May, it became known that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) had classified the AfD as "certainly right-wing extremist" in a report. A spokeswoman for the IMK chairman, Bremen's Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD), subsequently stated that he would "ensure that the issue will be addressed at the Interior Ministers' Conference in Bremerhaven in June." She added that Mäurer would also invite a representative of the BfV.

The AfD is fighting the classification with an urgent application. Pending a decision by the responsible Cologne Administrative Court, the domestic intelligence agency has therefore placed the matter on hold and continues to list the AfD only as a so-called suspected case.

Despite the classification, Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) has repeatedly emphasized that he does not support a ban. Instead, he said, the AfD should be "governed out of existence."