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Officials in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate announced they will ban members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party from holding public office. The order would bar any applicants who are members of extremist groups or have been members within the past five years. Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified AfD as a right-wing extremist group. Currently, AfD is Germany's second-largest political party, receiving about 21 percent of the vote in the February 2025 elections.