Deputy chairman of the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, Alexander Gauland | Carmen Jaspersen/AFP via Getty images AfD deputy leader says Angela Merkel is a ‘dictator’ Alexander Gauland says the chancellor is trying to ‘replace the German people’ with migrants.

Alexander Gauland, the deputy chairman of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying she was a "dictator," who is trying to "replace the German people" with migrants, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.

At a rally outside Berlin on Thursday night, Gauland called Merkel a "chancellor-dictator," adding that her asylum policy is dramatically changing the face of the country.

Gauland also lashed out at Germany's mainstream parties for pursuing a policy of "human flooding." That will lead to German people being replaced 'with a population coming from all parts of the earth," he said.

At the rally, Gauland twice read from a sign held by a supporter: "Today we are tolerant and tomorrow foreign in our own country," a far-right slogan used by the neo-Nazi NPD party.

The deputy AfD was under fire last week after saying most Germans would not want German footballer Jêrome Boateng — who was born in Berlin to a German mother and a Ghanian father — as a neighbor. Merkel, among many others, condemned the remark as "vile."