Tech billionaire Elon Musk and American Vice President JD Vance Have come out to defense far-flung by Germany Optional ,After) The “Siddha right -wing extremist organization” was officially labeled by the country’s federal office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) of the Constitution (BFV).
The designation, which allows the party’s increased monitoring, has criticized a sharp international.
JD Vance, who shared a post on X, said, “AFD is the most popular party in Germany, and is still the most representative of East Germany. Now bureaucrats try to destroy it.”
He accused the political establishment of Germany of “rebuilding the wall of Berlin”, which is a reference to the suppression of the Cold War era.
Elon Musk replied to Vance’s post with esoteric phrase, “Bhagya loves irony.”
Musk has openly supported AFD in recent months. He also hosted AFD co-leader Alice Weidel Encouraged the party to vote in a lively conversation on X and the Germans before the federal elections.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio also weighed, called the decision “disguised in torture”, and warned that the German intelligence now “has new powers to survey the opposition.”
“This is democracy,” he posted on X. “We have learned from our history that writing needs to stop extremism,” he said.
In a rare step, Germany’s Foreign Office publicly responded, defending the decision, saying, “This is democracy. We have learned from our history that Right -wing extremism Should be stopped. ,
AFD ranked second in February’s national elections, scoring a record 152 seats in a 630 -seat Bundestag with 20.8% of the votes, especially in East Germany.
The BFV justified the extremist designation, saying that the party’s ethnic and citizenship’s lineage-based definition is “incompatible with a free democratic order.”
According to the BBC, it also accused of rejecting equal rights for citizens with Muslim and immigrant backgrounds.
AFD leaders Ellis Videl and Tino Krupalla slammed the move as a “clearly politically motivated” and “a serious blow to the German democracy”, arguing that the party was being “infamous and criminalization” just before a government infection.
Meanwhile, German MPs are ready to vote next week to confirm the conservative leader Frederick Merz as the new Chancellor, leading the alliance with the center-top social democrats. Once in the office, Merz decided whether to ban remote AFDs classified as “right-wing extremist party”.
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