Trump Hails AfD's Record Saxony-Anhalt Win
- 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.
On the eve, Trump applauded the "really big" victory of Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Sunday's regional elections.
Alternative für Deutschland received 43.8 percent of the vote in Sunday's state election in Saxony-Anhalt.
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