German intelligence agencies are to continue investigating the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) until after February's elections, security sources told dpa on Wednesday, as a regional court dealt the party a further blow.

The AfD has been rising in the polls but they are unlikely to get the power to govern.The Alternative for Germany, AfD, is eager for things to proceed quickly now: " Chancellor Scholz has long lost the trust of the German people and he must clear the way for new elections immediately,

More than 100 members of the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, have made application for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), conservative Bundestag member Marco Wanderwitz said on Wednesday.

A state branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is to remain under investigation by intelligence services after the party's complaint was rejected by a German court. The decision by the Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court on Wednesday ensures intelligence officials in the south-western state can continue to classify the local AfD chapter as a suspected right-wing extremist organization.