The German chancellor accuses the far-right party of seeking to destabilise Germany
Friedrich Merz launched a frontal assault on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Wednesday in his first government statement to the Bundestag following his party’s election defeat in eastern Germany.
“You want to destabilise our country,” he told AfD deputies, after the party’s co-leader Alice Weidel had earlier taken aim at him.
Sunday’s election result in Saxony-Anhalt was certainly remarkable, and the AfD was feeling emboldened today, Merz said.
However, the party had failed to achieve its goal of winning a majority of seats: 56% of voters had not voted for the AfD, he added, vowing the far right would not win an absolute majority – neither in Saxony-Anhalt nor in Germany.
