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Friedrich Merz

What's on Friedrich Merz's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6
35%22%15%9%19%
calling remigration ethnic cleansing 35% the Trump call he postponed 22% the far-right advance 15% · newthe EU budget fight 9% · neweverything else 19%
#1
He called it ethnic cleansing. The AfD called a prosecutor.

After Merz told the Bundestag the AfD’s ‘remigration’ plan is ethnic cleansing, the party filed a criminal complaint accusing him of defamation.

Germany's Merz accuses far-right AfD of calling for 'ethnic cleansing'

Reuters · 2026-09-09
our translation

he wanted a fight on principle and the afd just handed him a legal stage. being reported by the far right is a badge — unless the critics are correct that the speech mostly shot his own foot.

AfD files criminal complaintvery sure · 6 sources
#2
Trump cheered the AfD. Merz found something better to do.
Snub still in headlines, fadingvery sure · 5 sources
#3
Squeezed from both flanks while the AfD keeps climbing
new — Fresh state and national pollspretty sure · 6 sources
#4
Merz wants Brussels to find hundreds of billions in cuts
new — Pressed Costa on cuts this weekpretty sure · 4 sources
friday, september 11
Leave the AfD’s criminal complaint to the lawyers, unrepentant(reported)
Keep the Trump call on the ‘postponed’ pile for another day(safe bet)
Study the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern poll, then sigh and campaign(reported)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Germany’s AfD files criminal complaint against chancellor for ‘ethnic cleansing’ remarks

news.google.com · 2026-09-11

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