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The co -leader of the far -right alternative to Germany, Donald Trump, praised as the “right man” to end the war in Ukraine and urged her country to remain a “neutral mediator” in a satirical, satirical, satirical debate before the public elections next Sunday.

The largest country in Europe interferes in the last week of campaigns in campaigns, as it wrestles with a stagnant economy, a discussion in preserved migration and deep anxiety over the high -end Atlantic relationship under the new Trump administration, which publicly swing behind AFD.

During a two -hour presentation, Alice Wadel, AFD candidate, appeared as a major goal for the Social Democratic Consultant Olaf Schools, the candidate of the Green Robert Habik, and the leader of the Christian Democratic Party Friedrich Mirz. One after the other, they faced the extreme right -wing politician on subjects, including the war in Ukraine, and its party’s association with Nazi ideology.

Weidel boasted about the support it received from the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, which he met on the sidelines of the Munich annual security conference on the weekend. The 46 -year -old politician, Vans, welcomed the participants in the conference who urged the main politicians in Europe to communicate with the advanced right -wing and anti -Foundation parties.

“Vance admitted that you cannot build protection walls to exclude millions of voters from the beginning. He has made it clear that we needed to talk to each other.”

Widel, who is expected to win his party by 20 percent of the votes on February 23, has seized American support since Trump’s return to the White House.

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and a close -up consultant for Trump, has repeatedly used the social media company to promote AFD, a party suspected of being right -wing extremism by the Intelligence Agency in Germany. Weidel was also hosted in Budapest by Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Urban, who described it as the “future”.

The latest support from Vans, who abandoned Schulz in Munich, caused anger among the founding parties in Germany, which all refused to enter an alliance with AFD. This anger was repeatedly poured into the open during the discussion on Sunday.

MirzCDU is expected to win the elections by about 30 percent of the votes, accusing Weidel of keeping extremists in its party like Bjin HookWho won last fall in the regional elections in the Eastern State of Thornsia, and “every man and woman in Germany can summon the Nazis without punishment.” Hook was condemned thanks to the use of the banned Nazi logo last year.

“We have a good tradition in Germany, which consists of learning lessons from the experiences of national socialism,” Schulz also told Weidel. “There is no cooperation with the extreme right.”

“I find this comparison a scandal,” the far -right candidate answered. “See, you can insult me ​​here tonight as you like. You insult millions of voters.”

Vans’s speech was at the Munich Security Conference and Trump to negotiate peace settlement with Vladimir Putin without consulting Kiev and her European allies before the horizon.

The candidates have clashed on how to finance billions in additional defensive spending as well as thorny questions of sending forces to Ukraine as part of post-resettlement security guarantees-a topic that will be discussed in a meeting organized by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday.

“What happened in recent weeks and with the security conference Munich cannot be taken seriously, because the Trump administration launched a frontal attack on the values ​​society in the West,” said Habik.

Mirz Schools criticized the French leader’s allowance to coordinate the European Union’s response to Trump negotiations with Putin. The consultant, who is leaving the Democratic Party of Democratic Party in third place by 15 percent of the expected votes, also accused the blocking of military aid to Ukraine for political reasons.

But during the discussion, which covered a wide range of topics including migration and economics, he kept the singular candidate to become his adviser to his most critical of Weidel.

In response to her suggestions that Germany should not take side by side in the conflict, he said: “No, we are not neutral, we are not between them. We are alongside Ukraine, with Ukraine, we are defending the political system that we have here.”