Germany's Merz accuses right wing AfD of calling for 'ethnic cleansing'
Merz said the AfD’s “remigration” agenda would amount to ethnic cleansing and warned it would damage Germany’s economy and labor market.
- On Wednesday, September 9, 2026, Chancellor Friedrich Merz confronted AfD co-leader Alice Weidel in the Bundestag, calling the party a "destructive force" and condemning its "remigration" policy as a synonym for "ethnic cleansing."
- The confrontation followed a historic surge for the Alternative for Germany in Saxony-Anhalt's September 6 election, where the party secured nearly 44 percent of the vote against 17 percent for the Christian Democratic Union .
- Merz accused the AfD of destabilizing Germany through its Moscow-friendly stance, citing the party's silence on an August 4 drone attack at Leipzig/Halle airport that the government blamed on Russia.
- U.S. President Donald Trump praised the AfD's electoral performance on Truth Social, prompting Chancellor Merz to postpone a planned call with the American leader to avoid appearing to interfere in domestic politics.
- Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania hold elections on September 20, 2026, as mainstream parties maintain a "firewall" against governing with the AfD despite the party's growing electoral momentum.
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Merz’s fate in the balance as second eastern German state goes to the polls
ROSTOCK, Germany: Germany’s struggling Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be relying on the popular center-left state premier in the eastern region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to keep out the far right in an election on Sunday which may decide his political survival. Fresh from its triumph in the Sept. 6 election in Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party looks once again likely to come in first in the Mecklenburg-Weste…
Among the conservatives, now separated by ten points, are chased the voices of a farewell of Merz. Eastwards are evaluated of the openings to the "ultradestra"
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