“Germany has just granted its spy agency new rights to surveillance the opposition. This is not democracy – this is tyranny in disguise,” wrote Rubio on platform X, referring to the decision of the German counterintelligence, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
“A true extremism is not the popular AfD – which took second place in the last election – but rather deadly immigration policy of open borders, which the AfD is opposed. Germany should change the course” – he added.
AFD recognized as an extremist organization
The German counterintelligence (BFV) classified on Friday a right-wing-populist alternative to Germany (AFD) as an extremist organization that threatens democracy. The office stated that AfD “works against libertarian, democratic order of the state.”
BFV made a decision based on internal expertise of approx. 1.1 thousand. pages. The document emphasized that the AFD assessment is based primarily on the sense of the nation dominating in this party, which is based not on citizenship, but above all on origin.
The classification of AfD as an extremist organization will allow the authorities to use classified methods of monitoring the activities of this group, which took second place in the February parliamentary elections.
Earlier, AFD youth and its structures were found in three lands: Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
AFD classification as an extremist entity does not mean the group's outdoor. Only the Constitutional Tribunal may decide about it at the request of one of the two chambers of parliament (Bundestag or Bundesrat) or the government.
Rubio's intervention is already another action of the new American administration in defense of the AfD. Earlier, the vice president of JD Vance called the Germans not to exclude the organization from governing the organization and not build “firewalls” around it. In the past elections, the President's adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, also supported the party.
