Trump Hails AfD's Record Saxony-Anhalt Win
Trump praised the AfD’s win after it won 43.8% of the vote and came within three seats of a governing majority, officials said.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump praised the AfD's Saxony-Anhalt election victory on Truth Social, attributing the party's surge to voter frustration with Germany's "absolutely horrible Immigration rules and regulations."
- The AfD surged into first place in the September 6 Saxony-Anhalt election, taking 43.8% of the vote while vowing a "remigration and deportation offensive" targeting migrants.
- Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the state branch as a "right-wing extremist" organization, while the party won 39 of 83 seats in the Magdeburg Landtag, three short of a majority.
- Former U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell celebrated the results as "a new day in Germany," while tech billionaire Elon Musk congratulated the party with a resounding "Well done!"
- With the party unable to govern alone, The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance , which entered the state parliament with five seats, remains the only party not to have ruled out forming a coalition.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz cancelled the 9 September telephone call with US President Donald Trump, but the representative of Merz did not name the reason for the cancellation, but stressed that it was not linked to his schedule, reports AFP.
Trump attributes state election win of AfD to Gemany's 'horrible' immigration policies
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz accused the Alternative for Germany party of advocating anti-migration policies that were tantamount to "ethnic cleansing" during an address to the German parliament.
"Wow! The populist party in Germany just had a great night," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform yesterday.
Alternative für Deutschland received 43.8 percent of the vote in Sunday's state election in Saxony-Anhalt.
Merz accuses AfD of ‘ethnic cleansing’ as Trump hails far-right win with ‘MGGA’
Three days after AfD won nearly 44% in Saxony-Anhalt, Chancellor Friedrich Merz says its ‘remigration’ policy would target millions by origin and skin color; Alice Weidel declares his ‘time is up,’ while Trump celebrates the result and a planned US-German call is postponed
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