Alice Weidel labels the Scholz-Merz gathering as a completely devoid of significance summit.
AfD spokesperson Alice Weidel brands the get-together between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and CDU head Friedrich Merz following the lethal knife attack in Solingen as a "totally pointless summit". She claimed the meeting, held mere days prior to the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, was merely a facade to look busy, according to an AfD press release. Weidel slammed the CDU for failing to implement existing laws in regions they control, such as North Rhine-Westphalia. She pushed for decisive steps, declaring, "This entails an immediate halt to immigration, asylum, and naturalization, along with the immediate expulsion of all Afghans, Syrians, and Iraqis illegally living in Germany, as well as an end to the leniency towards those scheduled for deportation." Scholz and Merz, who helms the Union parliamentary group, held discussions for approximately an hour at the Chancellery that day, discussing, among other things, the implications of the knife attack in Solingen. Merz urged Scholz to alter his migration policy.
Following her criticism of the CDU, Weidel also condemned the timing of Scholz and Merz's meeting, stating, "The knife attack in Solingen should have been a catalyst for action, not an opportunity for a pointless summit." Despite the violent incident, Merz's push for a change in migration policy in response to the attack fell on deaf ears, as the meeting primarily served as a political maneuver.
