Peskov commented on the failure of the Merz party in the elections in Germany // Sands: CDU Merz lost the elections because of Germany’s refusal from Russian gas

The unsuccessful result of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the regional elections in Germany demonstrates the discontent of Germans with the state of the economy. This opinion was expressed by the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov.

"The Germans, some of the Germans, are at least looking for an alternative to the existing authorities in order to improve their situation," Peskov said. - It's a natural process.

He stressed that the elections in Germany are an internal affair of this country. At the same time, the representative of the Kremlin noted that “the decline in the competitiveness of the German economy” was a consequence of the fact that the country “stopped buying cheap Russian gas.”.

In the elections to the regional parliament in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won. The ruling CDU, led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, has not won a single mandate for the first time in its history.

More in detail - in the material "Kommersant".