The Trump administration flies to the AFD aid, confirmed by far right by the German authorities – Liberation
Close to Trump do once again burst into European policy. His vice-president JD Vance and his leader of diplomacy Marco Rubio attacked the German authorities on Friday May 2 to classify the alternative party for Germany (AFD) « Right’s extremist ».
“AFD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative in Eastern Germany. Today, bureaucrats are trying to destroy it ”,, Flistrated the American vice-president JD Vance. However, he noted in a publication on the X network, “The West killed the Berlin Wall together. It was rebuilt, not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment ”.
Created in 2013, AFD has carried out a historic breakthrough In the legislative elections of February 23, arriving second behind the conservatives with a score of more than 20 %, double the previous one. In the regions which formerly formed the Democratic Republic of Germany (GDR) Communist, AFD won 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 the authorities to do « Reversal ».
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately replied by saying, in English, that « This is democracy ». « Our story has taught us that we have to stop right -wing extremism »clear reference In the Nazi past of Germany.
The Constitution protection office, one of the German internal intelligence services, justified earlier in a press release its verdict, stressing that AFD ideology « »devalues whole groups of the population in Germany and undermines their human dignity ”which is not « Not compatible with democratic order » of the country.
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 – which came second in the last elections – but rather the immigration policies at open borders of the establishment, to which AFD is opposed »said Marco Rubio.
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, Europeansduring a speech in Munich in February in which he said that freedom of expression « Decreed » in Europe. He had also pleaded for the end of « CORDON SANITARY » Around this party, and had spoke with the chief of AFD Alice Weidel.
During the electoral campaign, The billionaire Elon Musk had called supporters of the German far right to be « Proud to be Germans »in full controversy after his Nazi salvation in the wake of the inauguration of Donald Trump. On December 21, 2024, Elon Musk had officially declared on X his support for the German far -right formation by writing: « Only AFD can save Germany ».
Political training dreams of taking power after the next legislative elections in 2029.
