Members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) are authoritarians who pose a threat to the country’s democratic order, German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck said in an interview published on Wednesday. “The right-wing authoritarians are attacking the essence of the republic,” Habeck, a Green Party leader, told Stern magazine. “They want to turn Germany into a state like Russia.” Habeck’s comments come a week after news reports revealed that AfD politicians held a meeting with far-right extremists in November in Potsdam that included Martin Sellner, the founder of the far-right extremist…