“Germany has just granted its spy agency new rights to surveillance the opposition. This is not democracy – it's tyranny in disguise” – Rubio wrote on platform X, referring to the decision of the German counterintelligence, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
“A real 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.
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and the head of the state performance department, who conducts cuts of budget expenditure, joined his voice. – Prohibition of the central activity of the AFD, the most popular party in Germany, would be an extreme attack on democracy – he wrote on Platform X.
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.
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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.
The stigma involving such status and the resulting restrictions in the occupation of position in public service will make AFD more difficult to attract new members, “Reuters noted.
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.
