“The Germans have just granted its spy agency new rights to surveillance the opposition. This is not a democracy – this is tyranny in disguise” – he wrote Marco Rubio on the X website, referring to the decision of the German counterintelligence, the Federal 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 a deadly immigration policy of open borders, which the AfD is opposed. Germany should change the course” – he added.
German counterespionage (BFV) classified on Friday right-wing-capulative Friday An alternative to Germany as an extremist organization that threatens democracy. The office stated that AfD “works against libertarian, democratic order of the state.”
AFD as an extremist organization. POSSIBLE INVIGATION
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.
Classifying AFD as extremist organization enable the authorities to apply secret methods of monitoring the activities of this groupingwhich 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 – says Reuters.
American AFD weapon administration
Earlier it was considered extremist AFD youth and its structures 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, Bundesrat or government.
“Prohibiting the central activity of the AfD, the most popular party in Germany, would be An extreme attack on democracy” – he said in x Elon Musk.
Rubio's intervention is already another action of the new American administration in defense of the AfD. Earlier vice president Jd vance He called on the Germans not to exclude the organization from governing the organization and would not build “firewalls” around her. In the past elections, the President's adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, also supported the party.