The German Foreign Ministry defended the decision to classify the far -right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an “extremist entity” after strong criticism from the White House.

US Vice President Jay Di Vance has accused the “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the AFD designation as “disguised tyranny”.

In an unusual move, the German Foreign Ministry responded directly to Marco Rubio by posting on the X platform, writing: “We have learned from our story that right -wing extremism must stop.”

The intelligence service that characterized the party as an “extremist entity” found that the “prevailing concept of AfD of people on the basis of nationality and origin” contradicts Germany’s “free democratic class”.

It is recalled that the AFD came in the second party in the February federal elections, earning the 152 -seat record number in the 630 -seat parliament, garnering 20.8% of the vote.

Germany’s Federal Protection Office (BFV) had already described the AFD as a far -right extremist party in three eastern states where its popularity is higher. Now, this characterization has expanded and concerns the whole party.

The AfD “aims to exclude some population groups from equal participation in society,” BFV said in a statement. The service specifically said that the party does not consider citizens “from countries with mainly Muslim population” as equal members of the German people.

Party co -chaired, Alice Videl and Tinos Kroupala, said the decision was “clearly politically motivated” and is a “serious blow to the German Republic”.

Beatrix von Starch, a deputy parliamentary spokesman for the party, told the BBC Newshour program that the characterization is “the way an authoritarian state, a dictatorship, would face its parties”.

The new AFD designation provides the authorities greater powers to monitor the party using tactics such as telephone and secret agents.

“This is not a democracy – it is a disguised tyranny,” Marco Rubio wrote on the X platform.

But the German Foreign Ministry opposed: “This is a democracy”, responding immediately to the politician’s account on X.

The post stated that the decision was taken after “thorough and independent investigation” and could be appealed.

“We have learned from our history that right -wing extremism must stop,” the Foreign Ministry’s announcement concluded – in a reference to Hitler’s Nazi party and the Holocaust.