đź’ Rattled German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had a rare outburst of anger after he was criticized for his military support of Ukraine.
The German Chancellor faced an angry crowd accusing him of being a "warmonger" over his response to Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost his cool when he faced an angry crowd heckling him over Germany's response to Russia's war on Ukraine. The German leader furiously responded as people shouted "warmonger" at him during a public speech.
He blasted back: "Warmonger? Putin is the warmonger!
"He marched into Ukraine with 200,000 soldiers. He's mobilised a lot more. He's risked the lives of his own citizens.
"While you are all shouting 'make peace without weapons', Putin has been assembling unbelievable numbers of tanks, rockets, ballistic missiles and he's aimed them at Ukraine.
"He's destroying cities, he's destroying villages, he's destroying railway lines and highways.
"And he has killed countless citizens of Ukraine, children and old people."
It comes after prominent members of German mainstream parties have expressed alarm at a new poll that shows support for the far-right Alternative for Germany at a record high.
The DeutschlandTrend survey, conducted monthly by infratest dimap for public broadcaster ARD, that was released on Thursday puts voter support for Alternative for Germany at 18 per cent, on a par with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats. In the 2021 election, Scholz's party received 25.7 per cent of the vote, while Alternative for Germany, or AfD, got 10.3 per cent.
“This (...) is a disaster and should be understood as an alarm signal for all parties of the center,” said Norbert Roettgen, a senior lawmaker for the main opposition Christian Democrats, whose support stood at 29 percent in the poll of 1,302 voters conducted from May 30-31. The margin of error was up to 3 percentage points.
Roettgen said his own center-right party should ask itself why it hasn't profited as much from voters' unhappiness at the government.
