This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBERLIN — The far-right Alternative for Germany party denounced Wednesday steps by the country's domestic intelligence agency to place it under watch for suspected extremist links, opening the group to monitoring during a major election year.The party’s parliamentary leaders, Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland, described the move as “completely unjustified.” The party, known by its German initials AfD, holds 88 of 709 seats in the German parliament.The designation opens up members to surveillance such as wiretapping and...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBERLIN — The far-right Alternative for Germany party denounced Wednesday steps by the country's domestic intelligence agency to place it under watch for suspected extremist links, opening the group to monitoring during a major election year.The party’s parliamentary leaders, Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland, described the move as “completely unjustified.” The party, known by its German initials AfD, holds 88 of 709 seats in the German parliament.The designation opens up members to surveillance such as wiretapping and...WW…