The opposition far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has welcomed the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition as long overdue, calling it a “liberation” for Germany. The AfD leaders in the Bundestag or lower house of parliament, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, charged late Wednesday that the coalition government comprising Scholz’s Social Democrats, the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) had led the country with great strides to an economic abyss. “After months of gridlock and countless self-centred therapy sessions, we now urgently need a fundamental po…