section_path: Public profile/'Extremist' designation
section_name: 'Extremist' designation
paragraph_text: 'Extremist' designation
  
  On 2 May 2025 the German intelligence agency, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), published a report spanning 1,100 pages which sought to assess whether the AfD should be designated as an 'extremist' group. Central to its thesis was the party's anti-Muslim stance, and it favouring national and ethnic Germans over migrants. AfD denounced its designation as politically motivated attempt to discredit and criminalize it. The designation opens the possibility of civil servants belonging to the AfD facing dismissal depending on their role within the entity, according to the country's interior ministry. In response, the AfD filed a lawsuit.