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This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.”
In a response on X, the German foreign ministry pushed back against the US secretary of state, saying This exclusionary understanding of the people is the starting point and ideological basis for ongoing agitation against certain individuals or groups of people, through which they are defamed and despised indiscriminately and irrational fears and rejection are stirred up.”
The AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it,
Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy — it’s tyranny in disguise,
To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win an election,
The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt — not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment,
You should reverse your course by hollowing out AND exploiting the rules based international order for the disadvantage of Ukraine and NATO,
Roderich Kiesewetter, a prominent lawmaker of Merz’s conservatives, wrote in a reaction to Rubio’s tweet Europe needs a Churchill to contain you,
The decisive factor in the fight against the AfD now is rapid, visible successes by the new coalition, especially in the areas of migration, security, and the economy,
Throm told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper Specifically, for example, the AfD does not consider German citizens with a migration history from predominantly Muslim countries to be equal members of the German people, as defined ethnically by the party,
Starting today, no one can make excuses any more: This is not a democratic party,
said Manuela Schwesig, a senior member of the Social Democrats (SPD), who are about to form a government with the conservatives The party’s prevailing understanding of the people based on ethnicity and descent is incompatible with the free democratic basic order. It aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, subject them to unconstitutional discrimination, and thus assign them a legally devalued status,
a statement from the agency read Right! The spy agency works for the ruling government, which is responsible for illegal mass migration, sky-rocketing criminal rates, highest taxes, highest energy prices. Since the AfD is the strongest party in polls now, they want to suppress the opposition & freedom of speech,
Central to our assessment is the ethnically and ancestrally defined concept of the people that shapes the AfD, which devalues entire segments of the population in Germany and violates their human dignity,
the BfV said, explaining its decision The AfD will continue to take legal action against these defamatory attacks that endanger democracy."
AfD leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said Banning the centrist AfD, Germany's, most popular party, would be an extreme attack on democracy."
Nothing to see here—just the Secretary of State attacking one of our strongest allies, falsely accusing it of 'tyranny in disguise,' all in defense of a far-right, Holocaust-denying, pro-Putin party. This is INSANE,
the group Republicans against Trump wrote You are aware a new German govt has been elected which will assume power next week, and which has already announced much tougher Immigration rules?”
Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German Ambassador to the United States between 2001 and 2006, asked It's totally obvious -- at the moment the AfD is leading in the polls,
What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes,
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