AfD leader Alice Weidel has accused the traffic light coalition and the CDU/CSU of "deceiving voters" with the announced tightening of security and migration policy. "This is pure panic ahead of the state elections", she said at the end of the Saxon AfD's election campaign in Dresden.
"If we had the political will, we could have done something long ago", said Weidel. There was no point in writing off the AfD's program at the last minute. For years, the AfD has been calling for benefits in kind instead of cash benefits for asylum seekers.
As a consequence of the deadly knife attack in Solingen, the German government had previously agreed on new measures to protect against Islamist terror, combat irregular migration and tighten gun laws. The CDU/CSU, for its part, had called for a stricter migration policy after Solingen.
