MERKEL’S WORST NIGHTMARE: Germany calls for Referendum as ‘people want to be free of EU
BELEAGUERED Angela Merkel is facing calls for a referendum to free German people of “EU slavery” in the wake of Britain’s sensational decision to cut ties with Brussels.
By REBECCA PERRING
Express.co.uk
Tue, Jun 28, 2016
Far right figures in Alternative for Germany have promised to call their own vote if they clutch power in country’s general election in autumn next year.
A party spokesman branded Brussels a “bureaucracy monster”, before adding: “Next year the AfD will enter the German parliament and Dexit will be top on our agenda”.
They called the vote a Dexit as it stands for a Deutschland exit from the EU.
Eurosceptism has swept across the continent after the people of Britain backed Brexit in the historic EU referendum on June 23.
AfD chairman Bjorn Hocke said: “I know the German people want to be free of EU slavery.”
George Pazderski of Berlin AfD Berlin AfD added: “Germans must decided on staying in the EU.
“The AfD is the only part which speaks out clearly in favour of them deciding.”
Party leader Frauke Petry, who caused controversy earlier this year when she called on German police to open fire on illegal immigrations, reacted with delight at Britain’s decision to sever ties with Brussels.
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