After his barn-burner speech at the Munich Security Conference and the groundbreaking negotiations between his team and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and his top advisers, there was still time for US Vice President JD Vance to shake the German geopolitical foundations another time.
Friday, in Munich, Vance met with the leader of Germany’s far-right AfD, his office confirmed, after stating that ‘Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t’.
Vance’s office did not provide Reuters with further details of the meeting, saying the VP met with leaders of all of Germany’s major political parties.
Reuters reported:
“A spokesperson for AfD leader Alice Weidel confirmed the meeting, saying the two met at Vance’s hotel for about 30 minutes and discussed the Ukraine war, German domestic policy and freedom of speech.”
AfD is polling at around 20% ahead of the February 23 general election, and its ‘pariah status’ has been challenged by Elon Musk, Viktor Orbán and now, Vance.
“In a policy dubbed the ‘firewall’, parties have formed a consensus not to work with the AfD, which is under surveillance by the German domestic intelligence service.
In an apparent reference to the catchword, Vance said: ‘Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls’.
‘No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants’, Vance also said, speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.”
Failing, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticized Vance’s remarks as highly unusual, and Germany’s defense minister branded Vance’s criticism of German and European political powers as ‘unacceptable’.
“’This democracy was just called into question by the U.S. Vice President, not just the German democracy but that of Europe as a whole’, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at the Munich Security Conference on Friday. ‘If I understand him correctly, he compares the condition of Europe with what prevails in some authoritarian regimes … this is not acceptable’, he added.”
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