Germany's interior minister-to-be sceptical of banning far-right AfD

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2025-05-04

Berlin (dpa) - Germany's soon-to-be interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, appears reluctant to initiate a ban on the country's Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party recently designated by intelligence officials as a "right-wing extremist" threat to democracy. Germany's domestic intelligence agency reignited a political debate about banning the party after it announced on Friday it was designating the AfD party as a right-wing extremist organi......

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