Kommentar: Merz lässt sich von der AfD in die Ecke drängen
Der Kanzler wehrt sich deutlich gegen die vor Kraft strotzende Alice Weidel. Aber er tritt der AfD-Erzählung des Untergangs nicht ausreichend entgegen.
Alice Weidel was visibly energized by the AfD's electoral victory in Saxony-Anhalt. The chief of the AfD, now more self-assured and rhetorically radical in the Bundestag, criticized the CDU, stating that it had not only been "punished" by the citizens but "atomized" altogether. The Union, according to Weidel, was on the verge of becoming the smallest party in the Bund.
"Rightly so," she declared. Weidel made it clear that the AfD's strategic objective was to dismantle the CDU as the leading force of the democratic center. Each election campaign, each Bundestag speech, served to gradually dismantle Chancellor Merz. With the Saxony-Anhalt victory, the first step was taken: the CDU was split in two, which Weidel playfully hinted at Merz.
"Read also: Prior convictions, Stasi, Porn - Who backs the Siegmund-AfD to enter the Landtag" And the Chancellor was provoked. He told Weidel that the AfD did not win an absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt and did not achieve its election goal. While factually correct, the outcome was painfully narrow. Provocative statements such as this one do not persuade anyone, least of all the voters who instigated this political upheaval.
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