# Trump praises hard-right AfD party’s election victory: ‘Germany finally got tired of the immigration rules which hurt them so badly’

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- Published: 2026-09-09T13:12:32+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-09T19:24:34+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16116681/Trump-praises-hard-right-AfD-partys-election-victory-Germany-finally-got-tired-immigration-rules-hurt-badly.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Art, Culture, Elections, Europe, Politics, World

## Key points

- AfD won 44% in Saxony-Anhalt, nearly a majority
- Trump praised the win, blamed Germany's immigration rules
- Merz's CDU crashed to 17%; EU leaders voiced alarm

## Summary

Reaction to the AfD's breakthrough win in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt broadened into international debate, with Donald Trump praising the hard-Right party and blaming Germany's "horrible" immigration rules for pushing voters towards it. The result rattled mainstream European politics, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union suffering its worst showing in the state in decades, and figures across the continent, including Poland's Donald Tusk, Spain's Pedro Sánchez and allies of France's Emmanuel Macron, warning of a wider far-Right surge ahead of future elections.

The AfD took 44 per cent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its previous support and finishing just three seats short of an outright majority, while the CDU collapsed to 17 per cent. Merz called it the "heaviest electoral defeat" his party had suffered in years and said reforms were now needed, while Trump's Truth Social post hailed the "Populist Party" as "on the rise". Elsewhere, Tusk branded Polish sympathisers of the AfD "idiots or traitors", Sánchez warned of an advancing "extremist threat", and Macron allies called for centrist, Left and Right forces to unite behind a single candidate to block the hard-Right in France's 2027 presidential race; Elon Musk was also reported to have welcomed the AfD's result.

## Coverage

- [Daily Mail: Trump praises hard-right AfD party’s election victory: ‘Germany finally got tired of the immigration rules which hurt them so badly’](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16116681/Trump-praises-hard-right-AfD-partys-election-victory-Germany-finally-got-tired-immigration-rules-hurt-badly.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490)
- [Fox News: Trump hails 'really big night' for populists in German election after historic victory](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hails-really-big-night-populists-german-election-historic-victory)

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