The designated CDU boss Friedrich Merz has spoken out clearly against working with the AfD. He threatened the CDU officials in the regional associations with serious consequences.
The designated CDU-Chairman Friedrich Merz wants his party to cooperate with the AfD impede. “With me there will be a firewall to the AfD,” Merz told the “Spiegel”. “The regional associations, especially in the east, get a crystal clear message from us: If anyone of us raises their hand to work with the AfD, then the next day there will be a party exclusion process.”
He will be very consistent in relation to the AfD from the start. “We are not the XYZ party that can go with everyone. We are the CDU.” Franz-Josef Strauss once said that if a jacket was buttoned incorrectly, the top could no longer be corrected. “He was right about that.”
Merz expects a long way back to power
The 66-year-old ex-Union faction leader was recently in a CDU member vote with a large majority as the new party leader as the successor of Armin Laschet been chosen and should be at the federal party conference on 21./22. January to be appointed party chairman.
Merz warned his party that getting back to the chancellery would not be easy. “Many of us have not yet understood what it means to be in the opposition.”