Trump hails 'really big night' for populists in German election after historic victory
President Donald Trump heralded the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's electoral success in regional elections on Sunday in a Tuesday night post on Truth Social."Wow! The Populist Party in Germany just had a really big night," Trump wrote in the post."They finally got tired of the absolutely horrible Immigration rules and regulations which have hurt Germany so badly.THEY ARE ON THE RISE, and not going to take it anymore! MGGA!!! President DJT," his post concluded.The German state of Saxony-Anhalt held elections Sunday and AfD outperformed expectations that predicted the party would secure 40-41% of the vote, according to The Guardian.AfD surpassed that, garnering 43.8% of the vote while securing 39 seats in the state's 83-member parliament, according to results from the state's election authority.NEW GERMANY SEX-CRIME FIGURES REIGNITE MIGRATION FIGHT AS EXPLOITATION PROBE EXPANDSUlrich Siegmund, center, lead candidate and co-chair of the AfD state parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt, celebrates with Alice Weidel, federal chairwoman and co-chair of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, and Tino Chrupalla, federal chairman and co-chair of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, after the first results at an election party of the "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) after the Saxony-Anhalt state elections in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, Sunday, Sept.
6, 2026.(Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)It's a marked improvement from the young party's last result in the state, as AfD secured only 20% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt's 2021 elections.'SEND THEM BACK' CHANTS ROCK EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AFTER LANDSLIDE VOTE TO SPEED UP DEPORTATIONSThe anti-immigration party benefited in particular from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany's (CDU) losses, as Saxony-Anhalt's previous governing party dropped 25 seats, ending the election with only 15 seats in the state's parliament, per the results from the election authority.AfD's parliamentary co-chair in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich ...