Marco Rubio slam Germany’s AfD ban, call it a blow to democracy.
“Central to our assessment is the ethnically and ancestrally defined concept of the people that shapes the AfD, which devalues entire segments of the population in Germany and violates their human dignity,” the agency stated.
Rubio criticised the BfV’s decision in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, stating, “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy — it’s tyranny in disguise.”
He defended the widely supported AFD, arguing that it is not the far-right party that is “truly extremist,” but rather “the establishment’s dangerous open-border immigration policies that the AFD stands against.” Rubio urged, “Germany should reverse course.”
“This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough and independent investigation to protect our Constitution and the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped,” it posted on X.
This is not the first instance of a high-ranking official from Donald Trump’s circle commenting on German politics and the far-right AFD. Last year, one of the party’s senior leaders, Björn Höcke, faced accusations of using banned Nazi slogans during two rallies in 2021.
In a post on his personal X account, Vance wrote, “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,” he said.
Vance further added, “The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt — not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment.”