Trump Hails AfD's Record Saxony-Anhalt Win
Trump praised the AfD after it won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, putting the far-right party within reach of its first state government.
- 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 political quake in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt has also been registered in Washington. Two days after the election victory of the alternative for Germany, US President Donald Trump commented on the election Sunday with the following words: "Wow! The populist party in Germany just had a really big evening.
The shock of the overwhelming victory of Alternative für Deutschland has left the Cdu and its leader, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, unarmed in front of what could soon become the first local government led by an ultra-nationalist formation in Germany. And to increase the dose, on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, has arrived [...] The article Trump exults for the victory of AfD: Wow! They have finally got tired of immigration. And…
AfD: Trump congratulated the German right-wing party on its historic victory in Saxony-Anhalt, where the party won 43.8 percent.
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