How do they both hold with the AfD? Olaf Scholz accuses Friedrich Merz not to be afraid of the AfD. In November, shortly after the traffic light coalition, CDU boss Friedrich Merz proposed in the Bundestag to clarify votes with the SPD, the Greens and the FDP in the future so that there are no randomly majority with the AfD. The former traffic light partners supported this.
After Aschaffenburg's assassination attempt, in which a rejected asylum seeker killed two people with a knife, Merz initially announced a five-point program in the event of his election victory, which he wanted to implement with a competence. Then it was said from the Union that they wanted to bring several applications before the election and also a draft law to the Bundestag. He doesn't care who is politically involved, said Merz. The AfD then agreed with the Union several times, once a majority came about.
Scholz now accuses Merz that he could no longer trust his promise that he does not want to work with the AfD. Merz denies this in turn. At the CDU party conference last Monday, he said: He would never work with the AfD, let alone be elected to the Chancellor.
