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- 3 May 2025 13:10
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Germany's Foreign Ministry has defended its decision to classify the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an extremist right-wing party, following strong criticism from the White House, the BBC reported.
United States Vice President JD Vance has accused "bureaucrats of rebuilding the Berlin Wall," while Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the classification "masked tyranny."
In an unusual move, the German Foreign Ministry responded directly to Rubio's post on the "X" platform, writing: "We have learned from our history that right-wing extremism must be stopped."
The German intelligence that conducted the classification found that the AfD's dominant understanding of people based on ethnicity and background is against Germany's free democratic order.
The AfD came second in the federal election in February, winning a record 152 seats in the 630-seat parliament with 20.8% of the vote.
The party's two leaders, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, declared that the decision was "clearly politically motivated" and a "strong blow to German democracy."
The new classification gives authorities greater power to monitor the AfD using tactics such as phone tapping and recruited agents.
