Washington/Berlin, May 3 (UNI) Germany has received heavy criticism from the US administration, after its counter-intelligence wing classified the country’s right-wing party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as extremist. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the move “tyranny in disguise”, while Vice President JD Vance accused German “bureaucrats” of “rebuilding the Berlin Wall.”
In the parliamentary elections on February 23, the AfD came in second, winning a record 152 seats in the 630-seat parliament with 20.8% of the vote, following the CDU/CSU bloc winning the election through a vote share of 28.6%.
The AfD had already been given the extremist tag on Friday by Germany’s domestic agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) on grounds of alleged racism, and its anti-Muslim stance.