AfD leader Alice Weidel has accused the traffic light coalition and the CDU/CSU of "deceiving voters" with the announced tightening of security and migration policy. "This is pure panic ahead of the state elections", she said at the end of the Saxon AfD's election campaign in Dresden.
"If we had the political will, we could have done something long ago", said Weidel. There was no point in writing off the AfD's program at the last minute. For years, the AfD has been calling for benefits in kind instead of cash benefits for asylum seekers.
As a consequence of the deadly knife attack in Solingen, the German government had previously agreed on new measures to protect against Islamist terror, combat irregular migration and tighten gun laws. The CDU/CSU, for its part, had called for a stricter migration policy after Solingen.
Weidel: "Blue Miracle" throughout Saxony and Thuringia
Weidel was confident of victory in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia on September 1. "The Blue Wonder will not only happen in Dresden on Sunday, but throughout Saxony and Thuringia," she said, referring to the famous Dresden Elbe bridge. Weidel said she admired Saxony for its tradition of freedom and repeated her call for a "second 1989".
AfD co-chairman Tino Chrupalla was also convinced of his party's success: "We will win on September 1," he said at the beginning of his speech. The aim is to turn the republic upside down from Dresden.
Saxon AfD leader Jörg Urban accused the CDU of not keeping its election promises and of forgetting them again after the election. He called on the audience to send the CDU into opposition and put an end to the "betrayal of our citizens' interests". "Our country needs a change of power," said Urban.
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