CDU leader Friedrich Merz says cooperation with the AfD is out of the question. Merz: "This party is xenophobic.
This party is anti-Semitic. We have nothing to do with these people" Merz backs a proposal by Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer to establish a commission of federal, state and local governments for a new asylum policy. The AfD had recently caught up with the SPD with 18 percent in the ARD "Germany trend"