Intelligence agency classifies country's popular Alternative for Germany party as 'extremist'

Germany’s domestic quality agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution oregon BfV, connected Friday classified the country’s fashionable Alternative for Germany (AfD) enactment arsenic "extremist."

"Central to our appraisal is the ethnically and ancestrally defined conception of the radical that shapes the AfD, which devalues full segments of the colonisation successful Germany and violates their quality dignity," the BfV said, explaining its decision. "This conception is reflected successful the party’s wide anti-migrant and anti-Muslim stance." 

The AfD slammed the decision, calling it a "blow against democracy," claiming it was "clearly politically motivated," which the BfV denied.

The U.S. besides criticized the designation, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio claiming it is "tyranny successful disguise."

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Alice Weidel, co-leader of the country's fashionable Alternative for Germany governmental party, speaks astatine an lawsuit successful January. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

"Germany conscionable gave its spy bureau caller powers to surveil the opposition," Rubio posted connected X. "That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny successful disguise. What is genuinely extremist is not the fashionable AfD—which took 2nd successful the caller election—but alternatively the establishment’s deadly unfastened borderline migration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course."

Elon Musk wrote on X: "Banning the centrist AfD, Germany's, astir fashionable party, would beryllium an utmost onslaught connected democracy." 

AfD leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said, "The AfD volition proceed to instrumentality ineligible enactment against these defamatory attacks that endanger democracy." 

Vice President JD Vance met with Weidel earlier the predetermination and said that escaped code was nether onslaught successful Europe. 

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An emblem of Germany's Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz (BfV), the country's home quality service. (Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay )

The BfV besides classifies the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NDP), the Islamic State and different Islamist groups, and the far-left Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany arsenic "extremist."

The classification allows the quality bureau to intimately surveil the AfD, which came successful 2nd successful Germany’s February elections, winning a grounds fig of seats successful parliament.

Germany’s quality bureau is much legally constrained than different European countries successful its quality to surveil governmental parties, which requires the "extremist" designation, due to the fact that of its past nether Nazi and Communist rule. 

The designation besides allows the quality work to intercept enactment communications.

The "extremist" designation followed a 1,100-page study by the quality agency, and a tribunal lawsuit nonaccomplishment for AfD successful challenging the BfV’s erstwhile classification of the governmental enactment arsenic 1 suspected of extremism. 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the quality service's designation "tyranny successful disguise." (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Conservative person Friedrich Merz, who heads the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), volition beryllium confirmed arsenic chancellor adjacent week pursuing the elections successful a conjugation authorities with the center-left Social Democrats. 

Both Merz and the Social Democrats ruled retired governing with the AfD. 

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CDU, on with its Bavarian sister enactment the Christian Social Union (CSU), won Germany’s elections successful February aft garnering 28.6% of the vote, according to Germany’s planetary broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW). 

The AfD secured 20.8% of the vote. Meanwhile, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) won conscionable 16.4% of the vote, its worst effect since World War II.

Fox News Digital's Rachel Wolf and Reuters contributed to this report.