{"id":27327,"date":"2024-04-24T10:32:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/german-far-right-afd-in-saxony-anhalt-sues-over-extremist-label\/24\/04\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:32:44","slug":"german-far-right-afd-in-saxony-anhalt-sues-over-extremist-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/german-far-right-afd-in-saxony-anhalt-sues-over-extremist-label\/24\/04\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"German far-right AfD in Saxony-Anhalt sues over &#8216;extremist&#8217; label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The far-right Alternative for Germany party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt is taking legal action over its designation by the state&#8217;s domestic intelligence service as a confirmed right-wing extremist group.<\/p>\n<p>The state-level AfD party in Saxony-Anhalt filed a complaint in administrative court, deputy state chairman Hans-Thomas Tillschneider told dpa on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A court spokesman said that legal filings would be exchanged but that it is too early to say when a hearing on the case would be held.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt was classified as right-wing extremist, citing numerous anti-Muslim, racist and anti-Semitic statements made by functionaries and elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The classification gives the agency greater power to place the party under surveillance, including by deploying informants.<\/p>\n<p>The AfD is the strongest opposition party in Saxony-Anhalt&#8217;s state parliament, holding 23 out of 97 seats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/german-far-afd-saxony-anhalt-134401560.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The far-right Alternative for Germany party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt is taking legal action over its designation by the state&rsquo;s<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/german-far-right-afd-in-saxony-anhalt-sues-over-extremist-label\/24\/04\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}