Of rare violence: the Trump administration accused the German government on Friday of having “rebuilt” the Berlin Wall with the decision of the German internal intelligence to classify the alternative party for Germany (AFD) as being “extremist on the right”.
L’AfD is the most popular party in Germany and by far the most representative in Eastern Germany. Today, bureaucrats are trying to destroy it
castigated the American vice-president JD Vance.
However, he noted in a publication on the X network, The West killed the Berlin Wall together. This was rebuilt not by the Soviets or the Russians but by the German establishment
.
Created in 2013, theAfD carried out a historic breakthrough in the legislative elections of February 23 when arriving second behind the conservatives with a score of more than 20 %, double the previous one.
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Members of the Alternative Party for Germany (AFD), including the Alice Weidel File Chef, when celebrating the results obtained in the German legislative elections on February 23.
Photo: Reuters / Nadja Wohlleben
In the regions which formerly formed the Democratic Republic of Germany (GDR) Communist, theAfD won him in almost all of the constituencies.
Before JD Vance, the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, had also denounced a Disguised tyranny
in Germany and called on the authorities to do reverse
.
Do not repeat the story
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately replied by saying, in English, that That’s democracy. Our story taught us that we must stop right -wing extremes
clear reference to the Nazi past of Germany.
Earlier in a press release published on Friday, the Constitution protection office justified its verdict, stressing that the ideology of theAfD devalues whole groups of the population in Germany and undermines their human dignity
which is not not compatible with democratic order
of the country.
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“New Germans? We do them ourselves “: This is the translation of an AFD advertising sentence, which defends, among other things, ethnic nationalism.
Photo : Picture-alliance/ dpa/ W. Steinberg
This decision relaunches the debate on the possible ban on this party a few days before the inauguration of the Conservative Friedrich Merz as the Chancellor.
What is really extremist is not the popular AfD – Arrived in second position in the last elections – but rather immigration policies at open borders of the establishment, to which theAfD s’oppose
continued Marco Rubio.
Not Trump’s first interference body
This is not the first time that the Trump administration has interfered in German politics, causing Berlin’s anger.
The American vice-president had already dismayed the Germans and, more generally, the Europeans during a speech in Munich in February in which he had affirmed that freedom of expression fell
A Europe.
He had also pleaded for the end of sanitary cordon
around this party and had maintained itself with the head of theAfD, Alice Weidel.
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In February, Vice-President JD Vance delivered a controversial speech in Munich who sowed dissatisfaction among the politicians of the European Union.
Photo : Getty Images / AFP / TOBIAS SCHWARZ
During the electoral campaign, billionaire Elon Musk called supporters of the German far right to be proud to be Germans
In full controversy after his controversial salvation considered as a Nazi salute by some.
On December 21, 2024, Elon Musk had officially declared on X his support for the German far -right formation by writing: Only theAfD can save Germany.
L’AfD Dreaming of taking power after the next legislative elections in 2029.
