Germany's Merz Will Push up Debt With Help of Left, Says AfD Leader
BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, said Germany's likely next chancellor would be held hostage by left-wing parties that would seek to loosen tough fiscal rules.
Conservatives lead in German elections, far-right AfD comes in second
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared victory after his Christian Democrats won nearly 29% of the votes in the country’s federal election. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party faced a historic defeat with the lowest vote share for the center-left party since 1949.
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Struggling a month ago, the Die Linke party surged into Parliament by riding a backlash against conservative immigration policy.
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The center-right CDU is expected to emerge triumphant in a campaign that has made little mention of environmental issues.
“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...
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