Germany's Merz accuses right wing AfD of calling for 'ethnic cleansing'
Merz said the party’s remigration plan would drive mass deportations and hurt hospitals, care homes and restaurants, he told lawmakers.
- On Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz confronted AfD co-leader Alice Weidel in the Bundestag, calling the party a "destructive force" while acknowledging their electoral breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday.
- The AfD surged to its biggest win yet in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, while the Christian Democratic Union lost about half its support amid voter discontent over economic stagnation and immigration policy.
- Weidel told Merz that voters "pulverized your party" in Saxony-Anhalt, while Merz attacked the AfD's use of "remigration," calling it a "synonym for ethnic cleansing according to origin and skin color."
- President Donald Trump praised the "Populist Party" on Truth Social Tuesday for rising against "horrible Immigration rules," while Merz accused the AfD of damaging German interests through its stance toward Russia.
- Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will hold elections on September 20, testing whether the AfD can sustain momentum in eastern states where the Christian Democratic Union has historically struggled.
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The German Chancellor, cornered by Alternative's victory for Germany in last Sunday's elections, has heavily charged this Wednesday...
The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, accused the right-wing extreme party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) on Wednesday that it is pursuing "ethnic cleansing through its campaign of "remigration", being its first public confrontation with AfD since the shocking Sunday success of the party in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, reports The Guardian.
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz argues that the policy of "remigration" promoted by the Alternative Party for Germany (AfD) is in fact "ethnic cleansing". The Christian-Democrats' Leader (CDU), who scored more than twice as much as AfD in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, won by the far-right party, participated in a debate ...
Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD training, demands in the Bundestag the immediate deportation of “more than a million refugees”
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz entered a direct confrontation with the extreme right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), shortly after the election result obtained by the formation in Saxony-Anhalt. In a tense debate in the Bundestag, the head of the Berlin government criticized the policy of "remigration" supported by AfD and accused the party of endangering one of the important components of the German economy.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the far-right AfD's demand for mass "emigration" a form of "ethnic cleansing because of skin color and origin" in a heated parliamentary exchange on Wednesday. According to foreign media, three days after the AfD scored an election victory over his center-right CDU in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, Merz and AfD co-chair Alice Weidel fiercely attacked each other in parliament. Merz attacked the Alterna…
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