Germany defends extremist classification after Rubio ‘Tyranny slams in disguise’

The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has defended a decision to classify the alternative Für Deutschland (AFD) party as the right -wing extremist, after sharp criticism from the White House.

The American vice-president JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio rejected the designation as “Tyranny in Monguis”.

In an unusual step, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs replied directly to Rubio on X and wrote: “We have learned from our history that right -wing extremism should be stopped.”

The intelligence service that the classification has made found AFD’s “prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and origin” against the “free democratic order” of Germany.

The AfD finished second in federal elections in February and won a record 152 seats in parliament of 630 seats with 20.8% of the votes.

The Bureau, Bundesamt Für Verfassungsschutz (BFV), had already classified the AfD as a right -wing extremist in three eastern states where the popularity is highest. Now that designation has been extended to the entire party.

The AfD “wants to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society”, the said in a statement. The agency specifically said that the party did not consider citizens “from predominantly Muslim countries” as the same members of the German people.

Joint party leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chupalla said that the decision was “clearly politically motivated” and a “serious blow to German democracy”.

Beatrix von Storch, the deputy parliamentary leader of the party, told the BBC’s newshour program that the designation was “the way an authoritarian state, a dictatorship, would treat their parties”.

The new classification gives authorities larger powers to check the AfD using tactics such as the telephone interception and undercover agents.

“That is not a democracy – it’s a disguised tyranny,” wrote Marco Rubio on X.

But the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs hit back.

“This is democracy,” wrote it, directly replied to the X account of the politician.

The position said the decision was taken after a “thorough and independent investigation” and could appeal.

“We have learned from our history that right -wing extremism should be stopped,” concluded the statement – a reference to Hitler’s Nazi party and the Holocaust.

JD Vance, who met nine days before the elections in Munich in Munich and used a speech at the Munich safety conference to show support for the AfD, said that “bureaucrats” tried to destroy the party.

“The West tore the Berlin wall together. And it was rebuilt – not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German Establishment,” he wrote on X.

The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, separated East and West -Berlin for almost 30 years during the Cold War.

The new designation has again created the calls to prohibit the AfD prior to a vote next week in parliament or Bundestag, to confirm conservative leader Friedrich Merz as Chancellor. He will lead a coalition with the Center-left social Democrats (SPD).

Lars Klingbeil, the SPD leader who is expected to become Vice-Kanselier and Finance Minister, said that although no hasty decision would be made, the government would consider banning the AfD.

“They want a different country, they want to destroy our democracy. And we have to take that very seriously,” he said Bild -newspaper.