Mark Rubio intervenes in favor of AFD after declaring as an extremist organization: “This is not democracy, it is a disguised tyranny”
US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. PHOTO: Media Punch, MediaPoint Inc / Alamy / Profimedia
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, condemned the classification of the Alternative Party for Germany (AFD) as a “right -wing extremist” by internal intelligence services, appealing to the country “to reverse the course”, reports DPA, quoted by Agerpres.
“Germany has just granted its spying agency new powers to supervise the opposition. This is not democracy – it is a disguised tyranny,” Rubio wrote on the social platform X.
“What is truly extremist is not the popular AFD – which ranked second in the recent elections – but rather the open border immigration policies of the Establishment, to which AFD opposes. Germany should change the course,” the American official continued.
Germany's internal intelligence agency designated AFD on Friday, which opposes immigration, as an organization confirmed by “extreme right” that “despises human dignity” and threatens democracy.
The alternative to Germany (AFD), officially listed as an extremist organization that threatens democracy. What does Berlin Internal Intelligence Service decision mean
The new classification, which gives the Agency a higher supervisory power on AFD, is the result of a comprehensive review, whose conclusions are presented in an internal report of 1,100 pages. This decision reopens the debate on the possible prohibition of this party, just a few days before Friedrich Merz's investment as a chancellor.
A political bomb in Germany: What follows after the designation of the AFD party as an extremist organization that threatens democracy
This is not the first time that Trump administration intervenes in German politics, to Berlin's great upset, AFP comments. JD Vice President Vance was dismayed in Germans and Europeans in a speech in Munich in mid-February, stating that freedom of expression is “declining” in Europe, aimed at Germany in particular.
At that time, he denounced the AFD ostracization and asked to end the “sanitary cord” around the party and had discussions with AFD leader, Alice Weidel.
