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We'll have fresh elections — I don't think we'll have to wait another four years."
We have seen the center is weakened overall, and everyone should look at themselves and ask whether they didn't contribute to that,
We are now the political center and we have left the fringes behind us,
The world out there isn't waiting for us, and it isn't waiting for long-drawn-out coalition talks and negotiations,
he told cheering supporters It won't be able to implement it with left-wing parties,
We have fundamentally different views, for example on foreign policy, on security policy, in many other areas, regarding Europe, the euro, Nato,
The European Union's powerhouse will remain without a proper government in a heated geopolitical context, just as its economy is entering its third year of crisis,
There is, from my point of view, only one point of AfD which is remarkable and should be considered in the new government. This is a new approach in immigration policy,
Jurgen Hardt, CDU chief whip on the Bundestag foreign affairs committee, previously told the Washington Examiner We're running out of time,
one woman who attended the party with her husband lamented to the Washington Examiner Let's celebrate tonight and in the morning we'll get to work,
After Donald Trump's statements in the last week it is clear that the Americans are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe,
Merz said in a post-election TV debate I am very afraid of this shift to the right,
said retired teacher Hilke Reichersdorfer, 71, wearing a red scarf outside SPD headquarters [Mer ... Merz] appears inclined to take the easiest option, and that is a so-called 'Grand Coalition,' once more with the SPD. However, this coalition, unlike past grand coalitions, will have none of the splendor or dynamism: In fact, we might best consider it a grim coalition, more with the energy of a funeral that everyone has to go to but no one wants to be there."
He's identified immigration and the economy as the two main drivers of voter dissatisfaction with the previous governments, plural, and he's positioned his party to answer those frustrations,
The disparagement strategy was employed against AfD, trying to frame them as far-right, fascist, etc,
Merz has been very firm in maintaining the so called firewall that would prevent any coalition agreement with AfD, and at the basic level, any coalition with AFD would rip the CDU/CSU apart,
This is a bitter election result for the Social Democratic Party, it is also an electoral defeat,
Now we have the far-right - the AfD - and the fact they got such a good election result is something we cannot accept and I will never accept,
In time, we will get there,
said a smiling Stephan Möller, a senior figure and elected official in the Thuringia branch You want the opposite of what we want and that is why there will be no cooperation."
Addressing Weidel directly, Merz said
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