
The AfD co-leader comments on the party's success in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, calling the result a debacle for the CDU and criticizing the unpopularity of leader Friedrich Merz.
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The AfD achieved a significant electoral result in Saxony-Anhalt. Friedrich Merz is the leader of the CDU.
"The CDU has suffered a debacle, a result that is reflected at the federal level, people have lost confidence, no chancellor before had been as unpopular as Friedrich Merz, who has become a great burden for a gradual development in Germany." The co-leader of the AfD said this at a press conference in Berlin after the triumph in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt.

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