The German Defense Ministry intends to limit the AfD's access to classified military information

The German Ministry of Defense intends to limit the access of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which won the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, to secret military information and intelligence data, reports WirtschaftsWoche, citing sources in the department.

According to the publication, we are talking about access to the details of the so-called “Operational Plan” (Oplan), which is the “defense strategy” of Germany and its NATO allies in the event of a hypothetical military conflict with Russia.

It is alleged that in Berlin they consider the risk that AfD representatives, after coming to power in the region, to transfer secret information from the plan to “states unfriendly towards Germany” to be too high. In this regard, it is planned to isolate the future new leadership of Saxony-Anhalt from classified information, providing it with only “dry instructions” for action.

“We are looking very carefully at the recipient (of the plan - ed.). Only that part that really needs to be transferred will be transferred,” the publication quotes the interlocutor from the German Ministry of Defense as saying.

At the same time, as the publication notes, Berlin will continue to share information in the field of combating terrorism with AfD representatives in the new government of Saxony-Anhalt.

The AfD called the German authorities' plans to limit party representatives' access to classified information a violation of democratic norms. Against this background, the interior ministers of the remaining German federal states are already discussing the abolition of the principle of unanimity when making security decisions in order to eliminate the possibility of blocking initiatives by one potential administration with the participation of the AfD.

The AfD won with 43.8% of the vote in the September 6 elections to the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament. She advocates tightening migration policy and protecting traditional values.