BERLIN, May 3. /TASS/. German politician Sahra Wagenknecht condemned the move of the Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to classify the Alternative for Germany as a "right-wing extremist organization."

"The new assessment of the AfG by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is essentially controversial and politically counterproductive" the leader of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance wrote on X. "What we need is not a new discussion about banning it, but at long last a sensible policy that will be compelling to citizens and improve their living situation, instead of angering them further with inability, arrogance and electoral fraud."

According to the politician, the latest move and the isolation of the AfG in the Bundestag is a slap in the face to citizens who voted for the party.

"This absurd policy can’t continue," she said.

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution labeled the Alternative for Germany as an extremist organization on Friday, saying its ideas are not consistent with democratic freedoms. The move allows the authorities to surveil party members, using such measures as phone tapping, but doesn’t outlaw the organization, leaving the decision up to the Federal Constitutional Court. If the court bans AfD, it will be the third party to be banned in Germany after the Socialist Reich Party, which united former Nazis and was banned in 1952, and the Communist Party of Germany that was banned in 1956.