Merz admits ‘deviation’ from promise not to work with the far-right
Friedrich Merz, Chairman and top candidate for chancellor of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) greets supporters during an election campaign event at the Schinkelhalle.Credit: Carsten Koall/dpa
The conservative bloc's candidate for German chancellor admitted on Tuesday that his move to get a parliamentary motion passed with backing from the far-right AfD was a "deviation" from what he had agreed with two key parties running the government.
"I know that, of course, this was a deviation from what I had offered the rest of the coalition ... shortly after it had fallen apart," Friedrich Merz said at an election campaign event in Potsdam.
Merz, the candidate for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party CSU, said he had promised the Social Democrats (SPD) an...