The co-chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, Alice Weidel, called the country's new chancellor Friedrich Merz a "second-choice chancellor," DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
"Weakness and instability are the signals sent by your historic false start, Mr. Merz," Weidel told MPs today," she added.
Weidel, whose anti-immigrant party has been the largest opposition faction in parliament since the February elections, was eyeing Merz's election as chancellor last week when he suffered a historic defeat in the first round of voting in parliament. He eventually won a hastily arranged second round of voting later that day, but the unprecedented humiliation raised questions about the unity of his governing coalition, made up of his conservative Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party.
Weidel was the first MP to address parliament since Merz's first address to the government today. She reiterated the party's well-known demands, including a return to nuclear power and the resumption of gas imports from Russia.
The AfD co-chair also had harsh words for the country's migration policy, saying that turning back illegal migrants at the borders was only the first step.
"Murders, stabbings and rapes continue, day after day, week after week," Weidel said.
"Drawing attention to these facts" It is supposedly an attack on the German constitution in the eyes of domestic intelligence, she said, adding that she calls this "naming the facts".