German conservatives rule out any cooperation with the extreme right

German conservatives resolutely reiterated their rejection of any possibility of an alliance or cooperation with the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD), despite the fact that this formation rising in the polls elections and surpassed the Greens in voting intentions, in addition to tying with the Social Democrats (SPD), who lead the tripartite coalition that governs Berlin with the environmentalists and liberals (FDP) in the hands of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

“As long as I am the president of the CDU, there will be no cooperation with that party,” said the president of the Christian Democrats. Friedrich Mertz. «That party is xenophobic. That party is anti-Semitic. We have nothing with these people and there will be no cooperation here, under the table or under the table with me and us,” said the leader of the German conservatives, the leader of the German conservatives. statements for the German public television ZDF, whose formation has been leading in election polls with an advantage for months and up to ten points over SPD.

The last poll of the public television channel ARD last Friday showed a tied in voting intention between SPD and AfD with 18% of potential votes for each.

The latest, which was published on Sunday by the Institute of Insa Bild am Sonntag, he pointed out that the SPD and AfD are tied with 19% of the vote. The Union parties, Christian Democrats and Bavarian Christian Socials (CDU/CSU), added in the first 29% of votes in the poll and 27% in the second.

For Friedrich Merz, the surge in ultranationalists’ intention to vote stems from tripartite weakness which governs the state and its problems in communicating to the public the decisions it makes on controversial issues such as the law on the forced use of ecological heating, measures to solve sanitary deficiencies or the fight against inflation.

“If we had a government that worked well politically, the AfD would not have reached 18 percent of the vote,” said Merz, who particularly criticized The Greens for their work in the federal executive branchhe. “People in Germany are fed up with being protected in this way. That’s how they get air,” said the CDU president, who did not want to use the language of ultra-nationalists when criticizing the government. «We do not use AfD words“, he pointed out, and then emphasized that he does not want to get closer to the AfD every time he criticizes the tripartite party.

Despite the rise in the polls and representation in the Bundestag and a good part of the parliaments of various federal states, as well as German municipalities, especially in the east of the country, Alternative for Germany is a party that politically isolated. All other political formations in Germany refuse any alliance or cooperation with the populists and are ready to make all kinds of pacts and coalitions to prevent the ultranationalists from coming to power.