[Source](https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/05/afd-challenges-extremist-classification-rushed-through-by-outgoing-govt/) > Germany’s right-wing sovereigntist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has launched a lawsuit against the nation’s political police, even as some push for the government to ban the political opposition altogether. > The deadline for Germany’s political police force — established after the Second World War to protect the “liberal democratic basic order” and to prevent any deviation — to retract a decision to classify the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as “confirmed right-wing extremist” or else face legal action passed on Monday morning. The AfD, which is the second largest political party in Germany and the official parliamentary opposition, said the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declined to respond to their legal letter and so they were launching a lawsuit to challenge the decision in court. > The AfD had called the BfV classification “manifestly unlawful” and said they’d filed for proceedings and for an urgent motion at the Cologne administrative court, the city where the BfV is based, reports Handelsblatt.