Tusk slams AfD win in Saxony-Anhalt as Polish PM calls celebration 'idiocy'

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed shock over the far-right AfD party's victory in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state election, stating that only "idiots or traitors" in Poland would celebrate the result. He directed his criticism at opposition parties Confederation and Law and Justice. In neighboring countries, reactions diverged. Czech Chamber of Deputies speaker Tomio Okamura congratulated the AfD and hoped it would join the state's governing coalition, while French European affairs minister Benjamin Haddad called it a "heavy moment for Europe," urging leaders to address citizens' anger without resorting to nationalism. Preliminary results showed the AfD winning decisively with 44 percent of the vote, followed by the CDU at 17.4 percent. The Left, Greens, SPD, and Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance each polled between 5 and 9 percent, while the FDP failed to clear the five-percent threshold.