Demonstrators shouted at Merkel, she replied to them.

Demonstrators opposed to the German Chancellor's refugee policy tried to break her pre-election speech.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel opposed today's aggressive demonstrators who tried to halt her pre-election speech by deafening insults and whistles in the eastern city of Quedlinburg, telling them that their angry excuse would not solve the problems of Germany.

In the midst of the cry of "Merkel, goes" and "Liars, liars" that the protesters vigorously opposed her refugee policy, throughout her 30-minute address, the chancellor rules three times in his speech, Reuters reports.

"I hope you've managed to figure out some of this, although some of you still shout," Merkel said, with a facial expression at the end of her speech, which held up to 1,500 people.

As she pointed out, some think that problems in Germany can be solved by shouting.

"But I do not think so, and I think that most people here also do not think so," said the Chancellor, who is seeking to win the fourth term and is the favorite in the September 24 election.

She pointed out that "some people know nothing but shout and scream," but they told them that "they will not be allowed to put others on the wrong path".

Refugees welcome
In her speech today, Merkel made it clear that refugees were welcomed in Germany, although she admitted that there should be no repetition of excessive influx.

"Our diversity in Germany makes us strong and we want to maintain it," the Chancellor concluded.

Some of the anti-Merkel slogans were labeled "Go to the Muslims", "Get Gone, Merkel" and "Save the Constitution of Merkel" with the mark of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), and on one big white transparent with red spots like blood sarcastically "Thanks Merkel".

This was only the second pre-election appearance of the chancellor in the formerly communist East Germany, where feelings against the parties are particularly present.

Although Conservative Christian Democrat Union Angela Merkel is in the polls ahead of the Social Democrat Party (SPD) of the left center, some conservative voters are angry that she has opened the country's borders to more than a million refugees since the end of 2015.

Such anti-Merkel sentiments and a rapid increase in the number of refugees from Syria, Iraq and other troubled regions have sparked the climax of the far-right AfD, which, according to polls, could win up to 10 percent of the vote in the September elections, the British agency concludes.

• 26 Aug, 2017
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