Merkel’s conservatives rule out working with Germany’s far-right AfD

October 7, 2018 and   

(Reuters) Senior German conservatives facing painful losses in two state elections this month have ruled out forming coalitions with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

“I am very clear about this: not with the AfD,” parliament speaker and former finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told mass-selling Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

His comments support Chancellor Angela Merkel’s position to ostracize the anti-Islam party, although other members of her Christian Social Union (CDU) party have expressed willingness to work with the AfD.

The AfD entered the German parliament for the first time in an election last year, buoyed by conservative voters angry with Merkel’s decision in 2015 to welcome almost one million, mainly Muslim, asylum seekers.

Read more.

Related Articles

Mosques

Iran’s Islamic ‘revolution has no borders,’ says Torkilmaz The US government has declared Iran's regime to be the worst state sponsor of terrorism.

June 10, 2020   

(Jerusalem Post) The head of the Imam Reza Islamic Center in Berlin has declared in an interview with an Iranian state-controlled news outlet on June 3 that Tehran’s Islamic revolution has no borders. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an independent […]

Legal

German woman sentenced to nine years for keeping Yazidi as slave in Iraq The case highlights the crimes committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people

June 21, 2023   

(National-UAE) A state court in Koblenz, Germany, has convicted a 37-year-old woman, known as “Nadine K,” on multiple charges, including crimes against humanity, membership in a foreign terrorist organisation, and aiding and abetting genocide on Wednesday, according to the German news agency […]

Children & Teens

Germany charges Iraqi man with genocide for killing Yazidi child An Iraqi man faces a charge of genocide in Germany, accused of chaining up a Yazidi girl and letting the 5-year-old die of thirst. He and his wife, a German national, are believed to be part of the 'Islamic State' group.

October 11, 2019   

(Deutsche Welle) Greek authorities extradited an Iraqi man to Germany where he now faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and human trafficking, German prosecutors said on Friday. German officials identified the suspected “Islamic State” (IS) militant as Taha A.-J., in […]