Kremlin says AfD’s victory in Germany due in large part to lack of cheap Russian gas
The Kremlin said on Monday that the far-right Alternative for Germany's (AfD) first place in a state election in northeastern Germany was in large part due to Berlin no longer buying cheap Russian gas and choosing to buy expensive US energy instead.
On Monday, the Kremlin attributed the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's victory in a northeastern German state election to Germany's decision to no longer purchase cheap Russian gas and instead buy expensive gas from the United States. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the result was the worst for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative party since 1949, marking a decline in the competitiveness of the German economy.
This decision led some Germans to seek alternatives to improve their situation, according to Peskov. The AfD party and the Russian envoy's leader, Kirill Dmitriev, declined to comment. Germany has been struggling to recover from the shutdown of the Russian gas pipelines, which were damaged by explosions in September 2022.
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