Euractiv Editor-in-Chief Matthew Karnitschnig has warned that the far-right Alternative for Germany will “continue to strengthen” and could get to the point where the CDU has “no other option” but to go into coalition with them.
Polls have closed in Germany in one of the country’s most important elections so far this century, and it looks like Germany will have a new chancellor.
According to the exit polls, it looks likely former chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party will win power under new leader Friedrich Merz.
“You have to assume that the AfD is going to continue to strengthen, and it could get to the point where the centre-right will have no other option but to pull down that firewall and … go into a coalition here,” Mr Karnitschnig told Sky News Australia.
“In Germany, because of its history, that is a bit more controversial, to put it mildly.”