The decision by the German domestic spy agency to refer to the far-right alternative Fordeschiran party as "extremists", is the most obvious move by the authorities to date, trying to stop the advancement of populist political forces.
Federal Protection Constitutional Protection (BFV) classification on Friday will monitor the possibility of the country's largest opposition party for security services, including recruiting people to inform them of opposition and intercept their communications.
AFD leaders denounced it as a "anti-democracy blow" and nothing more than an attempt to deprive more than 10 million people of whom voted in the February election.
Its leaders vow to take legal action against what they call “slanderous” and “politically motivated attacks.”
According to experts who wrote the BFV 1100 page report, the AFD is a “racist and anti-Muslim organization” through its strict, racial and ancestral definition version, who are Germans, not Germans, “depreciates the entire part of the German population and violates the dignity of humanity”.
It also “caused irrational fear and hostility in society”, placing the blame on individuals and groups, the report reads.
In itself, although the timing is, the steps are not surprising. Outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser effectively announced the bombshell on her final day.
Faeser said that despite the AFD insisting on the contrary, “has no political impact on the assessment.” But the move puts huge pressure on Friedrich Merz's upcoming Conservative government, and Faeser's Social Democratic colleagues, who will be junior partners in the new coalition that will start working next Tuesday.
On the back of the decision, Melz will now be responsible – avoiding other challenges on his shelf – to decide whether and how to ban AFD, a decision that will involve the most unstable political rope walk.
Immigration, Ukraine, Trump and the economy are plagued by the economy are one of the emerging issues he must also urgently address. Growing dissatisfaction with these and others has exacerbated the six-month political deadlock in the premature collapse of the former government (causing a nationwide ENNUI) that has led to the spread of AFD in polls.
Winning second in the February general election – doubled its previous score, making it the strongest opposition party behind the conservative CDU/CSU – the AFD has been the first in a poll in recent days.
The BFV ruling is unlikely to make people not support support for AFD.
Finding a way to reduce AFD has been a priority on the agenda among all political parties since 2013 protesting against the anger of European bailouts. With populists (a pervert from anti-European to anti-immigrants over time), the importance of challenges has become increasingly important.
Merz hopes to be seen as a pragmatic rationalist, aiming to lower the AFD to what he calls a "marginal phenomenon" because it was once removed from the winds of the AFD's successful Modus Operandi by addressing the concerns of the state, to incite fear and insecurity.
Therefore, addressing “irregular” immigration is a priority on his domestic agenda as he attempts to address the topic that is considered the largest fuel to add fuel to the AFD fire.
But many others believe it was too late to think that an extremist classification followed by a ban would be the only way to stop a thriving party.
Others say such a move would be a serious danger of fighting back, believing that the AFD would transform the country’s brand into its own “seal of recognition” which would enhance its already strong victim or difficulty.
Merz's party CDU is torn apart over how to deal with AFD. Merz defaulted to working with the party, despite insisting that he would not - pushing for immigration policy through parliament. At the local level, his party and the French KMT collaborated on issues such as the ruling that the German flag should be revoked in schools.
Merz's close ally Jens Spahn recently suggested that the French should be regarded as "normal opposition", which has attracted ridicule that excluding the party from parliamentary proceedings will only increase its visibility.
Those who rejected this approach said Friday’s ruling would now give them more reasons to stop the party every opportunity, but they believe that this will work only if cross-party consensus prevails.