Europe loves fairy tales. The werewolf is called Vladimir Putin. He prowls in the electoral campaigns as if they were full moon nights. The voter is his little thumb. That he captivates and suborne. He has an accomplice, the extreme right hiding under the populist label. Fortunately, preux knights unmask her: intelligence services and magistrates.
In Germany, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, responsible for counterintelligence and internal intelligence, has just officially classified the Alliance for Germany as “Confirmed right extremist”. The German services have a reputation for nicketed feet: they did not believe in the invasion of Ukraine, nor the dangerousness of the terrorist who made a massacre in January on a Christmas market, etc.
It took three years of investigation to his agents to study the AFD program, the declarations of his leaders and the links with the identity movement … They did not discover weapons of arms, nor occult ceremonies on the soil, but they believe that “The AFD does not consider German citizens from immigration in countries with Muslim majority as equivalent members of the German people defined by the party in ethnic terms”. This prejudice would be “Incompatible with the fundamental liberal and democratic order”.
Since May 2, secret police have the right and even the duty to infiltrate the main German party, to listen to the doors, to search its emails. It’s open bar for the barbouzes. And a first step towards the ban on the party because parliamentarians and the government can now claim it from the Supreme Court.
The disguised tyranny
Article 21 of the German Constitution provides for this exclusion from democratic life. It is the legacy of the past. But what is planned for the Nazi groups, the Black Blocs, Antifas and other sects which vege in a semi-clandestine seems incongruous with a party which gathered 21 % of the votes in last winter elections. It is to consider a quarter of the Bundestag deputies as suspects. Their voters as children.
It is through the ballot boxes that the political fight must be decided, not by the secret services or the magistrates
Across the Atlantic, the Trumpists do not come back. The radical questioning of immigration does not shock them and recent history has taught them to be wary as the plague of the intelligence services which venture into the political field. JD VANCE had made the participants in the Munich conference by describing a Europe undermined by immigration and the distrust of the parties in power vis-à-vis the people. He does it again and indignant: “The West killed the Berlin Wall. It was rebuilt, not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment. »» Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, adds: “It’s not democracy, it’s disguised tyranny” …
Remedy worse than evil
It is through the ballot boxes that political fight must be decided. Neither by the secret services nor by the magistrates. The remedy is worse than evil. In Romania, in December, the first round of the presidential election was canceled by the Supreme Court, because a populist candidate arose from nowhere came to the lead by winning 22 % of the votes. The intelligence services were inquired: they submitted Moscow’s hand in the Internet campaign. It was wrong but the judges believed them.
Result: another candidate of the nationalist right has just arrived at the top of the first round with more than 40 % of the votes … Fairy tales have the great merit of helping the child to contain his anxieties. Politics is almost the same with voters. Confusing both is dangerous as witchcraft.
