Alice Weidel: Alice Weidel to Scholz: Damage caused for decades

news.de Alice Weidel: Alice Weidel to Scholz: Damage caused for decades 4 hours • 1 minute reading time Alice Weidel, federal spokeswoman for the AfD, speaks to party members during the AfD state party conference. AfD leader Alice Weidel has accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) of running Germany into the ground. "Your government was in office for just three years. The damage you caused during this time will continue to affect the Germans for decades to come," she said in the debate on the vote of confidence in the Bundestag. "The automobile industry is in free fall thanks to gigantic bad investments, mechanical engineering is in decline, the chemical industry is fleeing from exploding energy costs, the electricity supply is ruined, far too expensive and from one dark lull to the next always on the verge of a blackout," the AfD politician said. Scholz has overstretched the social system and robbed citizens of purchasing power and prosperity. Weidel also accused the Green Party's candidate for chancellor, Robert Habeck, of ruining the country. She said of the Union's candidate for chancellor, Friedrich Merz, that he was risking a third world war by supplying Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. Anyone who puts the fate of the country in their hands "is choosing war," Weidel stressed. At the same time, the AfD parliamentary group leader demanded that Syrian war refugees must return to their homeland immediately. "What is needed is an immediate stop to the admission, naturalization and family reunification of Syrians and the creation of return options," said Weidel.