Alice Weidel has said her party has replaced Chancellor Merz\u2019s CDU in this role after its historic defeat in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania<\/p>\n
The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has replaced Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as the \u2018people\u2019s party\u2019 in Germany, AfD co-leader Alice Weidel has said. Her comment came after the CDU suffered a crushing defeat in Sunday\u2019s regional election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, failing to even clear the 5% threshold.
\nSpeaking on Monday, Weidel attributed the CDU\u2019s historic drubbing to its supposed tendency to implement left-wing policies while professing to be a conservative party. Commenting on the Christian Democrats\u2019 poor showing in Berlin, where the Left Party came out on top with a projected 25.7% of the vote, the AfD co-leader said that this was the direct result of the CDU\u2019s \u201cparticularly \u2018intelligent\u2019 firewall policy.\u201d The term refers to the party\u2019s refusal to cooperate with the AfD under any circumstances, a policy that has led to the formation of unwieldy coalitions between the Christian Democrats and left-leaning parties.
\n\u201cThe CDU will never again win a federal election,\u201d Weidel predicted.<\/p>\n
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The other AfD co-chair, Tino Chrupalla, similarly characterized the CDU as a \u201cpseudo-conservative\u201d party.
\n\u201cWe have pulverized the CDU,\u201d he said, commenting on the AfD\u2019s triumph in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sunday, where the right-wing party finished first with 38.2% of the vote, according to preliminary results.
\n\u201cThe blue wave is unstoppable,\u201d Chrupalla said, referring to his party\u2019s colors. The AfD co-leader also predicted that his party would replicate its recent electoral successes in further regional votes.
\nGermans are \u201choping for a political turnaround in this country, not merely a change of personnel,\u201d he argued, adding that the resignation of Chancellor Merz was \u201clong overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the AfD managed to garner 21.5 percentage points more than in the previous election in 2021. Chrupalla described the result as proof that the AfD \u201cclearly have the mandate to govern here.\u201d
\nWith just 4.9% of the vote, Merz\u2019s CDU, by contrast, failed to even make it into the state parliament \u2013 for the first time since 1949.
\nWhile the chancellor did acknowledge that his party\u2019s showing was a \u201cdisaster,\u201d he stood by his course and refused to step down.
\nAlthough the Christian Democrats\u2019 performance in Berlin was less dismal, at 18.8%, it still represented a serious drop from the 28.2% the CDU won in 2023.
\nThe CDU\u2019s latest setbacks came just two weeks after the party finished a distant second with 17.2% of the vote in the regional election in Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD secured a resounding victory in the eastern region with 43.8% of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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