Why Chancellor Merz is coming to Thuringia:
Friedrich Merz, Chancellor and Federal Chairman of the CDU, speaks at a press conference in the Chancellery ...
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Key FactsMerz rules out formal cooperation with AfD and Left
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- Days before the election, Friedrich Merz again rules out formal CDU cooperation with the AfD and the Left.
- Merz also rejects a joint policy programme and the Left’s participation in government.
- If neither the AfD alone nor CDU, SPD and Greens gain majorities, the CDU would face a minority-government question.
- In Thuringia, the coalition holds 44 of 88 seats; the Left supports laws and the budget or abstains.
There are such fundamental differences between the AfD and the Left that cooperation with them is excluded.— Friedrich Merz, CDU leader, in an interview with the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung and Magdeburger Volksstimme, explaining why formal cooperation with the AfD and the Left is ruled out.
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