Weidel and Merz clash in Bundestag after AfD's Saxony-Anhalt win

Three days after the AfD's landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt, party leader Alice Weidel and Chancellor Friedrich Merz clashed in the German Bundestag, with Weidel declaring the black-red coalition finished and Merz accusing the AfD of "election fraud." Weidel said voters had clearly communicated that "black-red is over," claiming the CDU had been "pulverized" and that Merz's time was up. She attacked the government's debt policy, migration stance, and energy transition, accusing Merz of driving Germany toward state bankruptcy. Merz countered by accusing the AfD of contempt for democratic institutions and "ethnic cleansing" intentions regarding "remigration." He argued the AfD failed its goal of an absolute majority and faced heckling throughout his speech, prompting Bundestag president Julia Klöckner to warn against unruly behavior.