Trump Hails AfD's Record Saxony-Anhalt Win
Trump said the far-right party’s surge showed voters were rejecting Germany’s immigration rules after it won nearly 44% of the vote.
- 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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The AfD just short of an absolute majority
On 6 September a new Landtag was elected in Saxony-Anhalt. Saxony-Anhalt is the smallest of the territorial Länder by population, with 2.1 million people. It was clear in advance that there would be considerable changes. At the last Landtag election in 2021 the AfD, which the Saxony-Anhalt domestic intelligence service has classified as confirmed right-wing extremist, took over 20 per cent. In the run-up to this election the standing of the fede…
The far-right party AfD won a landslide victory in the Saxony-Anhalt regional election in Germany, securing 43.8% of the vote. Experts analyzed the root cause of this phenomenon as economic alienation and anxiety about the future, rather than immigration issues, and warned that the AfD's simplification strategy is being accepted by the younger generation as a normal political choice.
AfD Wins 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt as Trump Praises Victory
Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party more than doubled its 2021 vote share to win a commanding 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt state elections, and President Trump took to Truth Social to cheer what he called "a really big night" for populists. The AfD captured 39 of 83 seats in the eastern German state's parliament on Sunday, […]
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.
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