Washington, May 3 -- US tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk stated on Friday that banning the centrist Alternative for Germany (AfD), Germany's most popular political party, would represent an "extreme attack on democracy."
Earlier in the day, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the nation's counterintelligence agency, designated the AfD party as an extremist movement.
"Banning the centrist AfD, Germany's, most popular party, would be an extreme attack on democracy," Musk wrote in an X post.
US Secretary Marco Rubio responded to the news by stating that, with the designation of the AfD as an extremist movement, Germany is no longer a democracy but rather "tyranny in disguise."
According to Deutsche ...