A recent legal opinion from a German NGO declares that the prospects of getting the AfD banned by means of a process in the constitutional court are realistic.

It was on Thursday last week that the organisation Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Society for Civil Rights, GFF) presented a 1,500-page report that eight “experts” have prepared over the course of a year, in which the “unambiguous conclusion that the AfD is unconstitutional” was reported by Die Zeit the same day.

Ein Rechtsgutachten kommt zu dem »eindeutigen Ergebnis, dass die AfD verfassungswidrig ist«. Die Grünenfraktion fordert deshalb einen Anlauf für ein Verbotsverfahren. https://t.co/1GRCNADzZz

— DIE ZEIT (@zeitonline) June 25, 2026

The jurists Bijan Moini and Dana-Sophia Valentiner from GFF publicly presented the extensive printed matter at the Bundespressekonferenz (BPK) in Berlin, a meeting place for political journalists where the German government holds regular press conferences, which gave the presentation an official character.

The NGO, which was founded in 2015 and consists of both jurists and politicians, says of itself that it seeks to preserve human rights through strategic litigation in German and European courts.

Moini, who is a descendant of Iranian immigrants to Germany, said in connection with the presentation that a ban case against the AfD “in our assessment is likely to succeed”, Die Zeit reports.

The AfD aims to “undermine the liberal democratic basic order”, the opinion states. According to this the AfD in particular violates the principle of democracy and human dignity.
The party violates the principle of democracy by suppressing political opponents and by wanting to criminally prosecute politicians from other parties. In addition the AfD targets the human dignity of Germans with immigrant backgrounds, Muslims, asylum seekers and trans persons. The party’s ideology is “exclusion, contempt and comprehensive legal devaluation” of these groups, said Moini.
“So far there has been no sustainable answer to the question of whether the AfD is unconstitutional and can therefore be banned,” said project leader Moini. This creates “final clarity for politicians and society”.

The 1,500-page report was prepared by eight experts. They analysed more than three million text units about the AfD, including social media posts and press releases.

The report has prompted the Greens in Germany to renew demands that a ban case be initiated against Alice Weidel’s team. However, only the government, the Bundestag or the Bundesrat have legal standing to petition for such a process before the constitutional court.

“We, as parliamentary group leaders of the democratic parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag, have a responsibility to act,” wrote Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge in a letter to the parliamentary group leaders of the CDU/CSU, SPD and Die Linke. In it they requested “a joint conversation with the aim of submitting a joint proposal in the German Bundestag”.

There are also several in the SPD who want to attempt to ban the AfD. In the CDU/CSU, however, scepticism is great, and without the consent of the union parties there will be no case.

With the attempts that the NGO apparatus and the red-green left in Germany are making to clear the AfD out of the way, they are nevertheless trying to maintain an impression for the public that the party is not legitimate.

Germany’s political establishment does not know what to do with the AfD, and fears an electoral landslide in the party’s favour at the next election to the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt.