Merz accuses the AfD of wanting to carry out an "ethnic cleansing" in Germany

BarcelonaGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz has accused the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) of wanting to implement migration policies that amount to "ethnic cleansing" in Germany. Merz addressed the ultra-right party in a debate in the Bundestag, the German parliament, regarding the 2027 budget and three days after the AfD's victory in the Saxony-Anhalt elections. "If what is being advocated here, the so-called 'remigration', becomes a reality, it would be nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color," stated the German Chancellor, who also reproached the AfD for the ultra-right party's support for Russia against Germany's interests.

In the debate, the leader of the far-right party, Alice Weidel, demanded the immediate deportation of "more than a million refugees" and argued that deportation policies are legal. The ultra-right leader also boasted about the results in Saxony-Anhalt and predicted the end of the coalition between conservatives and social democrats. "The voters have said it clearly," insisted the far-right leader, to whom Merz replied that more than half of the voters in the small eastern German state did not vote for the AfD and that the party did not achieve its goal of reaching an absolute majority.

Russia was also another topic of controversy. Weidel called for a return to Russian gas and criticized the support for Ukraine, in addition to attacking Merz for having "allowed, without acting, the Nord Stream gas pipelines to be blown up".