Goodbye Merkel!' Salvini's BRUTAL words to EU leaders after Bavarian election humiliation
ITALIAN Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini brutally tore into the European Union as Angela Merkel faced bruising results in the Bavarian elections.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative allies in Bavaria have had their worst election performance for more than 60 years securing just 37.3 percent of the vote in a huge blow to her fragile three-party coalition government.
In a scathing tweet, Italian deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini claimed the electoral blow to Mrs Merkel's government showed “the old system had lost” and praised electoral gains by anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany.
Mr Salvini said: "In Bavaria change has won and the European Union, the old system that has always been poor in Brussels, has lost. This was a historical defeat for Christian Democrats and Socialists, while for the first time many of the AFD friends are entering the Regional Parliament.
"Goodbye Merkel, Schultz and Juncker.”
For the second time this year, Merkel’s party will be scrambling for coalition allies, either the Conservative Free voters or the Greens.
Chancellor Merkel angered many voters in Germany for her immigration policies, which has seen more than a million people enter the country since 2015.
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) won 11 percent of the vote and has now entered the 15th of Germany’s 16 state assemblies.
President of the Atlantic Council think tank Fred Kempe said: “The political earthquake was in Bavaria, but the aftershocks will be felt in Berlin.