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Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has accused the far right Alternative for Germany party of pushing a form of ethnic cleansing through its remigration campaign, delivering his sharpest rebuke of the party yet after its stunning win in a state election over the weekend. The comments marked Merz’s first direct clash with the AfD since Sunday’s upset result in Saxony-Anhalt. Speaking during a heated debate in the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, Merz argued that the AfD’s push for mass deportations would strike at the foundation of the German economy.