He New Friedrich Merz Chancellor has irritated White House For threatening to illegalize AFD (alternative for Germany), second party in the country. last Friday, May 2 was officially classified this Friday as «Organization of the extreme right» by the German interior intelligence spy agency. This announcement of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) covers the spies of Germany to submit to the members of this party and their voters to broader surveillance operations. The classification is produced on the eve of the conservative’s investiture Democratic De Cdu Friedrich Merz As Chancellor, which will be on Tuesday, May 6, after reaching an agreement with the German socialists (SPD). The service of the spies of Germany has declared that AFD is “contrary to the Constitution” and, with it, The way is paved to illegalize it.
After the announcement, on Friday, the members of the White House have criticized Germany’s decision against Alice Weidel’s party, leader of the AFD. He United States Vice President JD Vance He has criticized the decision with a reference to the Cold War: «The AFD is the most popular party in Germany and, by far, the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it. The West knocked down the Berlin wall. And it has been rebuilt, not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German ruling class, ”he said.
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged a message on social networks to Germany to revoke the classification: «Germany has just granted its espionage agency new powers to monitor the opposition. That is not democracy, it is disguised tyranny, ”wrote the head of the United States diplomacy. “The truly extremist is not the popular AFD – which was second in the recent elections – but the deadly policy of open border immigration of the establishment, to which the AFD opposes. Germany should reverse its position ».
Elon Musk criticizes the decision against AFD
Elon Muskowner of the social network X, where They made the criticismVance’s comment forwarded and added: “Destiny loves irony.”
In response also in social networks, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote: “This is democracy” in a publication that answered Rubio directly. “This decision is the result of an exhaustive and independent investigation to protect our Constitution and the rule of law,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote Friday night. «It is the independent courts that will have the last word. Our history has taught us that we have to stop the right -wing extremism »
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