BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of Alternative for Germany members who could potentially become far-right extremists has risen by 40 percent, the country’s domestic intelligence service BfV and interior ministry said in a report published on Tuesday.

The report, covering 2025, found that the far-right AfD showed no signs of moderating positions that draw scrutiny from the intelligence services.

Some 28,000 of the AfD’s about 70,000 members were considered to have the potential for right-wing extremism, up from 20,000 the year before, it said.

The AfD has pulled ahead of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives in national opinion polls and is far ahead of any other party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, where it could win power for the first time in a September election.

The AfD rejects the accusations that its views are extremist and has said the intelligence service’s assessments are politically motivated.

The BfV, which monitors extremist threats primarily through analysis of public statements and activities, defines extremism as efforts directed against Germany’s free democratic constitutional order.

Tuesday’s report found no indications that the........

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