Candidate-Chancellor CDU excludes collaboration with the extreme right-wing AfD

The favorite to become the next Federal Chancellor of Germany, the conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz, has again excluded every cooperation between a government under his leadership and the extreme right-wing party Alternative Für Deutschland (AfD). “I have said very clearly and emphatically several times: there will be no cooperation on our part with the AfD,” he said.

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