“We have to expect the worst,” Christian Democratic Party (CDU) foreign policy chief Norbert Röttgen warned of the possibility of Donald Trump being elected, while former foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) described the Republican candidate as a “right-wing extremist ” and “offensive”.

“(Donald) Trump is seen as unpredictable. But if we take seriously what he says, we should expect the worst: he wants to make a deal with (Vladimir) Putin at the expense of Ukrainian and European security,” Mr. Roetgen said via X, stressing that a possible Republican victory “will be fatal to the future of the West as a geopolitical actor.”

Along the same lines, the former leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), ex-minister of foreign affairs, today president of the “Atlantic Bridge”, Sigmar Gabriel, speaking in an emergency program of the private news station n-tv about the American elections, said that he would not called Mr. Trump simply “conservative” or “right-wing” but “part right-wing extremist.” “He is someone who is offensive. He is part right-wing extremist. He is not a classic conservative politician, but unfortunately he managed to destroy the Republicans in practice,” said Mr. Gabriel and added that “the party that today calls itself Republican, can no longer be compared to what it was in the past.”

Commenting on the US election process, the head of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee (SPD) Michael Roth (SPD) noted for his part that “despite all the experts, no one, really no one, can predict the American vote. Isn’t that amazing? In China, in Russia, in Azerbaijan, in Venezuela, and unfortunately in too many totalitarian regimes in the world, the situation is different: the dictator always wins.”