Reference News website reported on May 6th, citing a report from RT website on May 5th that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the German government's designation of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party as an extremist political party is equivalent to "covert tyranny". The German Foreign Ministry dismissed this claim.
Rubio recently criticized the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution for classifying the Alternative for Germany party as a "confirmed extremist entity", and called on Berlin to revoke this characterization. The German Foreign Ministry responded that "this is democracy", and argued that this move was a measure to uphold the rule of law.
Agence France-Presse cited Sebastian Fischer, spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry: "The implications contained in Rubio's remarks are absolutely groundless."
Rubio said that it is not the Alternative for Germany party that is extremist, but rather the "lethal open-border immigration policy" of the "establishment" which it opposes.
It was reported that the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution previously warned that Germany's democratic order is under threat, saying that the anti-immigration platform of the Alternative for Germany party "disregards human dignity". The party rejected this classification, calling it "illegal". (Translated by Ge Xuelei)
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