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A former German spy chief who was sacked after being accused of averting his eyes to the threat posed by the far-right founded a new right-wing party on Saturday, holding an inaugural party congress on a boat near Germany's old capital Bonn. The party is the third to be founded this year in Germany, further fragmenting the political landscape and making electoral predictions tricky ahead of European parliamentary polls and votes in half the country's municipalities and three states. ...

Former German spy chief founds new right-wing party

Germany’s main domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, revealed last week that it is pursuing its former boss, Hans-Georg Maassen, as a “right-wing extremist suspect.” The agency has been forced to admit that it was led by a right-wing extremist for eight years.

Hans-Georg Maassen has said his party could work with the far right - breaking a taboo in German politics.

Hans-Georg Maassen has accused his government of an attack on democracy after being formally placed under observation

A former head of the German domestic intelligence service, who is carving out a career in right-wing politics, on Sunday dismissed a new party on the left as "communist" in response to a suggestion that they shared common ground. Hans-Georg Maaßen, who was eased out of his position with the intelligence agency in 2018 after comments about violence directed at migrants, announced this week that he was leaving Germany's main centre-right party, the Christian Democratic Union (C...

The former head of Germany's domestic intelligence service who lost his job after appearing to downplay violence against migrants has announced his intention to resign from the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Hans-Georg Maaßen, a long-time CDU politician, announced his plans on Thursday in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Earlier this week, Maaßen and other politicians had set the course for the foundation of a new German political party, the WerteUnion (Values ...

The leader of a new breakaway party in German politics, Sahra Wagenknecht, says she does not expect mass demonstrations to weaken the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. "The AfD is strong not because there are suddenly so many voters with right-wing extremist views," the leader of the Alliance party told dpa in Berlin. "The AfD is strong because the politics in Berlin are so disastrous." Police said more than 900,000 people took part in demonstrations against righ...

Conservative wing Values Union votes to form new party of the right

The demonstrations show the depth of opposition to the return of fascism and war, but organizers are seeking to subordinate the movement to the government and parliamentary parties who are responsible for the official turn to the right.