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German Foreign Ministry responds to US accusations...
"This is democracy." The German Foreign Ministry begins its response to Marco Rubio's accusations with these three words. And it did not do so with a statement, but by responding directly to a post on X by the US Secretary of State on its official account.
The clash began after Germany's domestic security services decided to classify the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as an extremist party. The 1,110-page intelligence report, the result of four years of investigation, will remain classified.
It wasn't long before Rubio exploded on social media, accusing German intelligence services of "having the power to spy on the opposition", while speaking of "disguised tyranny". " It is not the extremist AfD, which came second in the last elections, but the deadly open-border policy pursued by the establishment, which the AfD opposes ". But the Berlin official replied: " This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough and independent investigation to protect our Constitution and the rule of law. Independent courts will make the final decision. We have learned from our past that right-wing extremism must be stopped ".
Meanwhile, Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance have lent a hand to Rubio. The former, who is also the owner of the social network, defines the decision of the German services as "an attack on democracy". The latter, ventures into a dangerous historical analogy: " The AfD is the most popular party in Germany. Now the bureaucrats are trying to destroy it. The West brought down the Berlin Wall with a joint effort. Now it has been rebuilt, not by the Soviets or Russia, but by the German establishment ".
Moreover, Vance and Musk have never hidden their sympathies for the German far-right party. In February, about ten days before the federal elections, the vice president met with AfD leader Alice Weidel on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, where he delivered a scathing speech against Europe, going so far as to speak of "freedom of speech" being at risk on the continent.
While Donald Trump's billionaire ally spoke to Weidel in January in a live chat on X, an occasion in which he praised his party's program and invited his followers to support and vote for the AfD (which subsequently came in second, with 20.8% of the vote and received 152 seats).
Weidel, along with his fellow party leader, Toni Chrupalla, called the decision "politically motivated" and a "very serious blow to German democracy." /Corriere Della Sera
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