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The co-leader of the right-wing extremist alternative for Germany praised Donald Trump as a “right man” to end the war in Ukraine next Sunday.
Germany enters its last campaign week because it deals with a stagnating economy, a disabled immigration debate and a profound fear of the rapidly deteriorating transatlantic relationship under the new Trump administration, which has swung openly behind the AfD.
During a two-hour prime time show, AfD candidate Alice Weidel appeared to the main goal of the social democratic chancellor Olaf Scholz, the candidate of the Green Party, Robert Habeck, and Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party. One after the other they confronted the right-wing extremist politician on topics, including the war in Ukraine and the connection of their party with the Nazi ideology.
Weidel praised the support she received from the US Vice President JD Vance, who met her on the weekend on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference. The 46-year-old politician welcomed Vance’s speech to the conference participants who asked the mainstream politicians in Europe to deal with right-wing extremist anti-establishment parties.
“Vance confessed that they cannot build firewalls to exclude millions of voters from the start. He made it clear that we had to talk to each other, ”said Weidel.
Weidel, whose party is expected to win 20 percent of the votes on February 23, has confiscated the US support since Trump’s return to the White House.
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and a close consultant of Trump, has repeatedly used his X-social media company X Social Media to promote the AfD, a party that is suspected by the German intelligence agency of right extremism. Weidel was also held in Budapest by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who described her as “the future”.
The recent support of the support of Vance, which Scholz beat in Munich, has caused Germany’s trouble among the established parties, all of whom have refused to enter a coalition with AfD. This anger often became open time during the debate on Sunday.
Merzwhose CDU party is expected to win the election with around 30 percent of the votes, Weidel accused, extremists in their party as to be kept like them Björn Höckewho won regional elections in the eastern state of Thuringia last autumn and who every man and every woman in Germany can call Nazi ”. Höcke was convicted of a forbidden Nazi slogan last year.
“We have a good tradition in Germany that learned from the teachings from the experiences of National Socialism,” said Scholz too. “There is no collaboration with the extreme right.”
“I find this comparison scandalous,” replied the right -wing extremist candidate. “Look, you can do me here tonight as you want. They insult millions of voters. “
Vance’s speech to the Munich Security Conference and Trump’s step to negotiate a peace regulation with Vladimir Putin without consulting Kyiv and its European allies in advance.
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“What has happened in the past few weeks and with the Munich Security Conference cannot be taken seriously enough, since the Trump government starts a frontal attack on the west of value,” said Habeck.
Merz criticized Scholz that the French guide coordinated an EU reaction to Trump’s negotiations with Putin. He also accused the Chancellor, whose SPD party remains in third place with 15 percent of the predicted votes to withhold military help to Ukraine for political reasons.
In the debate, which included a broad spectrum of topics such as immigration and business, the leader, who became a chancellor, kept his sharpest criticism of Weidel.
In response to her suggestions that Germany should not take part in the conflict, he said: “No, we are not neutral, we are not in between. We are on the side of Ukraine and, together with Ukraine, defend the political order that we have here. “
