In the past month, Germany’s leftist-controlled government, looking to crush its main ideological adversary, has started to use every tool at its disposal to crush the ethnic-nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

The unelected presidents of the European Union remain silent as Germany deploys its domestic intelligence agencies to silence Germany’s largest opposition party while at the same time decrying so-called ‘rule of law’ violations in countries like Hungary and Poland. 

At the beginning of March, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s federal domestic intelligence service, placed the right of conservative party under surveillance under the guise of being suspected as an ‘extremist group’, effectively allowing the agency to spy on Merkel’s foremost ideological opponent with impunity.

According to sources from Germany’s media who spoke with the BfV on the matter, Alternative for Germany has been declared a suspected case of far-right extremism and a threat to the democratic order of the country, allowing the domestic intelligence agency to deploy undercover agents called ‘V-men’ and survey the party and its members’ emails and phone calls.

The move against the AfD comes at the same time that the EU is pursuing Hungary and Poland over rule-of-law issues along with claims from EU officials that Hungary is a ‘sick democracy‘. Yet, unlike Merkel’s far left regime, neither Hungary nor Poland’s conservative governments have ever placed their main opposition parties and their members under blanket surveillance from domestic intelligence agencies.

While such an action from either Hungary or Poland would undoubtedly result in the EU condemning such an egregious measure, so far, the EU has not voiced any negative reaction to Germany’s policy nor opened up any proceedings questioning rule of law in the country. 

The AfD, a populist party with an uncompromising stance against mass migration, has taken the matter to court and the case is ongoing, something the BfV mentioned, telling Germany’s media: ‘In view of the ongoing proceedings and out of respect for the court, the BfV does not comment publicly on this matter.’

AfD group leader in the federal parliament, Alice Weidel, has commented on the report, saying, ‘The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is purely political on the issue of the AfD. This is particularly remarkable given the upcoming state and federal elections this year.’

‘I am sure that such a classification of the AfD will not stand before the Federal Constitutional Court,’ Weidel added. Source