‘Germany for Germans’: European politician defends leaked WhatsApp statement

‘A regional leader of Germany’s right-wing AfD (Alternative for Germany) party remains unmoved and has reiterated his ‘Germany for Germans’ call, previously leaked from a party chat, local media report.
Andre Poggenburg had shared his stance in a WhatsApp group chat with around 200 members while on his way to a Bundestag election campaign meeting, Die Welt reported.
After the conversation had been leaked to German media, the politician stood his ground.
“Of course, a country should ‘belong’ to those who have lived there for decades, in many generations,” Poggenburg wrote in an opinion piece cited by a number of German media.
“I did indeed make the statement ‘Germany for Germans,’ also multiple times in public, and I wholeheartedly stand by this wording,” he added.’
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