The game AfD From Germany on Monday to the offensive against its designation as a party “Right extremist” by the National Intelligence Agency, which further aggravated ties with the administration of the US President Donald Trump.
An alternative spokesman for Germany (AFD) said the party had presented a judicial appeal against the designation of the BFV agency, the day before the designated conservative chancellor, Friedrich Merzassume the position.
The BFV said Friday that considered the AFD a group of extreme “confirmed”, citing the “Xenophobic statements, antiminories, Islamophobes and antimuser made by senior party officials”.
The classification will help the authorities seek greater powers to monitor the party with telephone listeners and undercover agents, and has fed new orders for total prohibition of the AFD.
Monday, the collide of the party, Alice Weidel, He harshly criticized the label and said he was equivalent to “Criminalize freedom of expression.”
The members of the Trump administration rushed out in defense of the AFD.
The American vice president, JD VANCE, He described the AFD, which, as Trump, has campaigned against immigration, as “the most popular party in Germany.”
The AFD was second in the German federal elections of February with just under 21 percent, behind the CDU-CSU conservative alliance of Merz, which obtained more than 28 percent.
Since then he has been tied with the CDU/CSU in the opinion surveys, even taking the lead in some voter surveys.
The US Secretary of state, Marco Rubiohe described the action of the intelligence agency of “disguised tyranny” and said that “Germany should change course.”
The German Foreign Ministry made the unusual decision to respond directly to Rubio on X to say: “This is democracy.”
He stressed that the BFV decision was “the result of thorough and independent investigation to protect our Constitution.”
A ministry spokesman reiterated on Monday that Germany “firmly rejects” Rubio’s comments and that his “insinuations are certainly unfounded.”
The BFV based its decision on a report of more than 1,000 pages, prepared for years and delivered to the Interior Ministry.
The moment of its decision, in the last days of the outgoing center government, caused statements of the AFD that the measure was designed to hinder its growing electoral success.
In a statement issued on Sunday before announcing your appeal, The AFD described the “illegal” BFV decision and said the agency “had no evidence” of the statements that the party was a threat to the German Constitution.
He also rejected the accusations of xenophobia and Islamophobia.
The designation of the BFV has renewed the orders of some politicians (even within the MERZ CDU/CSU) for that the AFD is prohibited, Although the threshold for such action would be high.
Merz told journalists on Monday that his incoming government, and in particular the designated Interior Minister, Alexander Dobrindtthey would have to “carefully evaluate” the BFV report before taking any other measure.
However, he said that now It is “inconceivable” that the AFD is allowed to preside over parliamentary commissions.
AFD has repeatedly caused controversy in Germany.
One of his most outstanding faces, the leader of the party in the eastern state of Turingia, Bjoern Hoecke, He has been condemned twice for using a prohibited Nazi slogan, and others have been criticized for subtracting importance from Nazi atrocities.
Hoecke caused outrage over the weekend with a tweet (subsequently erased) in which BFV employees urged to “look for new jobs.”
“History shows that people have to face the consequences of their actions”He said, in what was seen as a threat against the agency.
(With AFP information)
