Germany responds directly to Marco Rubio after criticizing the AFD designation as an extremist organization
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Credit Line: Rs / MPI / Capital Pictures / Profimedia
Germany's Foreign Ministry defended the decision to classify the Alternative Party for Germany (AFD) as an “extremist” threat to democracy, despite the harsh critics from the White House, according to the BBC.
US vice -president JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and US Secretary Marco Rubio said, after the AFD designation as an extremist organization, that “this is not democracy, it is a disguised tyranny.”
According to the BBC, in an unusual movement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded directly to Marco Rubio on X. “I learned from our history that the right-wing extremism must be stopped”, was the message of the German Ministry.
Rubio: a “disguised tyranny”
“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, after the classification of AFD as a “right -wing extremist” by the internal intelligence services.
“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.
What was the basis of classification
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV), the German Internal Intelligence Service, ranked the highly right -wing formation for Germany on Friday as an extremist entity threatening democracy.
At the base of the decision was an internal report of 1,000 pages that mention violations of the fundamental constitutional principles, such as human dignity and the rule of law. “The conception of a people based on ethnicity and ascendancy that predominate within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the agency said in a statement.
The decision of the AFD classification comes a few days before the Conservative leader Friedrich Merz took the oath as a new Chancellor of Germany and in the middle of a heated debate on how to approach the threat of AFD, the most important opposition party in the new Parliament.
AFD has qualified the movement as “politically motivated” and announced that it will challenge its extremist classification in court.
