Erfurt (dpa/th) – According to the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, positions against human dignity and the principles of democracy and the rule of law dominate the political ideology of the AfD state association in the Free State. This emerges from the new Thuringian constitutional protection report for the year 2021, which was published on Friday. In it, the state association of the AfD is listed under the section “Right-wing extremist parties”.
In March 2021, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified the Thuringian AfD with its controversial state party and parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke as a secured right-wing extremist effort. “The extremist program of the national association was not corrected,” says the report.
According to this, the Islamophobia of the state spokesman Björn Höcke and other AfD representatives “feeds not in principle from cultural or religious criticism, but from racist positions”. In principle, racism is against the constitution, even if it comes in the “rhetorical dress of (unchangeable) cultural differences”.
