Donald Trump has hailed the election victory of Germany's hard-Right AfD party, attributing the result to existing immigration ​rules and regulations ​that he cast as 'horrible'.'Wow! The ⁠Populist Party in Germany ​just had a really big ​night. They finally got tired of the absolutely horrible Immigration ​rules and regulations which ​have hurt Germany so badly,' the US president wrote ⁠on Truth Social.On Sunday, the Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany surged into first place in state ​elections in ​Saxony-Anhalt, putting a hard-Right party within ​reach of power ​at ⁠the state level for the first time since ⁠World ​War Two.'THEY ARE ON THE RISE, and not going to take it anymore!' Trump wrote.The AfD secured 44 per cent of the vote in the eastern state, more than doubling its support and putting it ahead of the long-governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU).The result left the party just three seats short of an outright majority in the state legislature. The AfD’s election victory sparked alarm among EU leaders, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitting he was left ‘shocked’ by the result and allies of France’s Emmanuel Macron calling for a coalition to keep the hard right out of power. Merz said Monday he was 'deeply shocked' after his centre-Right party suffered a huge loss and admitted reforms were needed in the country. Donald Trump on Tuesday hailed the election victory of Germany's hard-Right AfD party in Saxony-Anhalt The AfD's Ulrich Siegmund (C) and the party's joint national leaders celebrating the result on September 6 The CDU, which leads the ruling coalition at the national level, scored just 17 per cent in the ex-communist state.'This is the heaviest electoral defeat the (CDU party) has suffered in years, in decades,' a crestfallen Merz told a press conference, a day after the vote.'Naturally, this will have to have consequences.'Meanwhile, the AfD’s victory has sparked panic across the continent, with allies of Macron calling for a ‘coalition’ to keep the hard-Right out of power. Two allies on Monday urged moderate political factions on the centre, left and right to unite behind a single candidate, in order to defeat the hard-Right in next year's elections to succeed the French president.Poland's prime minister also slammed supporters of AfD in his country. 'In Poland, only idiots or traitors could rejoice the AfD triumph in Germany,' Donald Tusk wrote on X.And Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday warned an 'extremist threat' was advancing throughout the world. In France, Clement Beaune, a former Europe minister, and former special advisor Philippe Grangeon, both Macron loyalists close to the president, said victory for four-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen should not be seen as 'a foregone conclusion'.