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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday condemned a decision by Germany's domestic intelligence agency to classify the Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party as a "proven right-wing extremist organization," calling the move "masked tyranny" and advising the country to "change course."
“What is truly extremist is not the populist AfD—which came in second place in the last election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open-border immigration policies, which the AfD opposes,” Rubio wrote in a post on X in the hours after the decision.
The decision, announced Friday by Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, gives German authorities greater oversight over the AfD. While some state-level AfD branches have received this label - such as in Saxony and Thuringia - this is the first time in modern German history that a party with nationwide representation at the federal level has been classified as extremist.
The party won a record 152 seats in parliament in February's federal election and now holds 20.8 percent of the vote.
After conducting a three-year investigation into the party, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution published a 1,000-page report, citing violations of fundamental constitutional principles, including human dignity and the rule of law.
President Donald Trump and his inner circle have largely supported the AfD. AfD co-chair Alice Weidel was one of many foreign leaders invited to attend Trump's inauguration, and Elon Musk has shown continued support for the party and spoke at an AfD campaign event in January.
"Banning the centrist AfD, the most popular party in Germany, would be an extreme attack on democracy," Musk wrote in a post on X.
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