The German Foreign Office has responded to Marco Rubio's claims that its designation of the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party as "extremist" equates to "tyranny."
"Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy – it's tyranny in disguise. 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," Rubio wrote on X on Friday.
