The
parliamentary leader of Germany's largest opposition party has urged the
dissolution of the NATO alliance. Her remarks come after US president-elect
Donald Trump described it as "obsolete."
German
opposition leader Sahra Wagenknecht on Tuesday added her voice to calls to
dissolve the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the wake of US
President-elect Donald Trump's controversial remarks concerning the military
alliance
"NATO
must be dissolved and replaced by a collective security system including
Russia," Wagenknecht told Germany's "Funke" media group.
Wagenknecht,
who leads the opposition Left Party in parliament, added that comments made by
the future US president "mercilessly reveal the mistakes and failures of
the [German] federal government."
'Very
unfair'
In an
interview published by German tabloid "Bild," Trump described NATO as
an "obsolete" organization.
"I
said a long time ago that NATO had problems. Number one it was obsolete,
because it was designed many, many years ago," he said.
"We're
supposed to protect countries. But a lot of these countries aren't paying what
they're supposed to be paying, which I think is very unfair to the United
States," Trump added.
Germany's
Left Party has previously called for warmer ties with Russia and scrapping the
security alliance, measures which appear to be policy concerns for the incoming
US administration.
The Left
Party is Germany's largest opposition group in parliament, and holds seats in
several state legislatures.
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