Diplomatic coroversy over an extremist party; Berlin we under the razor of Washington’s criticism
The US vice preside has likened the German governme’s behavior with the Alternative Right Party for Germany (AFD) to rebuild the Berlin Wall. The US Secretary of State has also called it “dictatorship”, but Berlin has defended himself.
On Friday, the German Ielligence Agency (BFV) classified the Alternative Ai -Immigration Party for Germany as an “extremist” organization and cited the statemes of “alien, ai -minority, Islam and ai -Muslim” officials.
The label allows the police to carefully monitor the activities of the party.
“Berlin Wall Reconstructed!”
Following these developmes, US Vice Preside JD Venus wrote on the X network: “Alternative is the most popular party in Germany and is far the most represeative of Germany in Eastern Germany. Now the bureaucrats wa to destroy it. “
“West collapsed the Berlin Wall,” he said. And now it is rebuilt, not by the Soviet Union or Russia, but by the structure of German power. “
Alice Widel and Tino Corpola, leaders of the Alternative Party for Germany, described the decision as “openly political motivation” and “a severe blow to German democracy”.
Weidel accused his coury of trying to suppress opposition. “Since the Alternative is now the strongest party in the polls, they wa to suppress the opposition and freedom of expression,” he wrote in X.
The Alternative for Germany was founded in response to how the euro -zone debt crisis was managed by Germany. Since then, the party has focused on the demands of more strict immigration and asylum laws and opposition to Wook’s agenda.
The party also criticizes NATO and has held demonstrations against Ukraine. The Alternative for Germany was second in the February federal election and won 2 seats out of 5 Bundestag seats (German Parliame). The party topped the polls for the first time last moh and received 5 % support. The party is especially popular in the less developed economic regions in the former East Germany.
Alternative for Germany has also been involved in coroversy, as some of its members have been linked to extremist and neo -neonazi groups or used slogans related to Nazi Germany, Rasha Todi reported. The main parties of Germany have refused to cooperate or coalition with alternatives for Germany on the basis of the so -called “Wall of Fire”.
In his speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, however, Trump’s deputy criticized efforts to isolate the party.
“Democracy is based on the sacred principle of the importance of people’s votes,” the US vice preside said. There should be no walls. Or adhere to this principle or not. ”
The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier built by Soviet -corolled East Germany in the year 6 to preve German citizens from escaping to West Berlin. The wall became a strong symbol of the Cold War and remained in the year that it was destroyed and led to Germany again.
“This is a dictatorship!”
In this regard, Marco Rubio wrote in X: “This is not democracy; “This tyranny is in the converter.”
But the German Foreign Ministry reacted and wrote in a direct response to the X -ray accou, “It is democracy.”
It was stated in the post that the decision was made after a “comprehensive and independe research”.
“We have learned from our history that right extremism must be stopped,” the stateme said, referring to the Nazi Party of Hitler and the Holocaust.
GD. Venus, who had met with Weidel in Munich seven days before the election and spoke to the Alternative for Germany at a Munich Security Conference, said the bureaucrats were trying to destroy the party.
Germany defended the “label of extremism”
Despite criticizing US officials, including Venus and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Germany defended the alternative classification for Germany as extremist. Rubio called these measures “tyranny in clothing.”
After the White House’s sharp criticism, the German Foreign Ministry defended its decision to classify the Alternative Party for Germany as a right -wing extremist party.
In an unusual action, the German Foreign Ministry responded directly to Rubio on the X -Social Network and wrote, “We have learned from our history that right extremism must be stopped.”
The message also reads: “The ielligence agency that has carried out this classification has found that the domina alternative understanding of Germany is in conflict with race and iellect with German free democratic order.”
The Federal Constitutional Protection Agency (BFV) previously declared alternative to Germany in the three eastern states, the most popular, the extremist right party. This classification is now generalized to the whole party. The alternative for Germany “iends to eliminate some population groups from equal participation in society.” The organization specifically said the party did not consider citizens to be “from most of the Muslim couries” as a member of the German nation.
The Alternative Party’s Parliameary Party for Germany, Beatrix Von Sturkh, said in the BBC News Program that the classification is “a way that an authoritarian governme, a dictatorial governme, treats its parties.”
The new classification gives the authorities more authority to monitor the alternative for Germany using methods such as telephone listening and hidden ages.
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