CDU party conference in Berlin
Merz excludes every cooperation with AfD
CDU boss Friedrich Merz excludes every cooperation with the AfD. His secret remains how this fits together with the joint coordination in the past week.
The CDU party chairman Friedrich Merz has excluded any collaboration or tolerance of a federal government in view of a cooperation with the AfD by the right-wing populists.
“There is no collaboration, there is no tolerance, there is no minority government, nothing at all,” promised the Union Chancellor candidate at the CDU election party in Berlin. The CDU wanted to “do everything in this election campaign to make this party as small as possible again”.
“I can insure the voters in Germany one very clearly and very clearly: We will not work together with the party that calls itself alternative for Germany. Not before, not before, never,” Merz called under persistent applause 1000 delegates who had stood up from their seats. The AfD is “against everything our party and our country has built in Germany in recent years and decades” that it stands against west bond, the euro, NATO.
In his speech, the party leader did not explicitly responded to the Bundestag votes last week in which the Union had voted together with the AfD. An application for migration policy received a majority with the support of the AfD, a bill failed. Since then there has been massive criticism of the SPD and the Greens and nationwide demonstrations against the approach of the Union.
At the weekend alone, between 160,000 and 250,000 people against right -wing extremism and for a delimitation of the CDU from the AfD demonstrated.
Friedrich Merz’s political career in pictures
The young Friedrich Merz, 36 years old in the photo. Even as a student, the Sauerländer entered the CDU, while studying law, he was involved in the young Union. He gained his first experience in parliamentary business in the EU Parliament, which he belonged to from 1989 to 1994. His campaign slogan at the time: “For German interests in Europe”
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Merz was convinced that the Union as the winner from the early Bundestag election on February 23 would emerge. “We are determined: We will win this Bundestag election with a very good result,” said Merz. He called on the CDU members for cohesion: The party “always won the political arguments in our country when we got together and held together.”
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Source: Stern
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