Armin Laschet,who hopes to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor, rules out cooperation with AfDArmin Laschet, or the leader of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and her potential successor as chancellor,has insisted his party’s “firewall against the far right will remain intact, as the CDU braces itself for a strong performance by the nationalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Sunday’s state elections in Saxony-Anhalt.
The AfD, or which first entered the German parliament in 2017,is stagnant on approximately 11% of the vote in polls for the national vote in September, but has shored up its influential positions in several states of the previously socialist east.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com