In the recent 2025 federal election, the conservative CDU and CSU celebrated winning the most votes, but with only about 28%, they fell short of the expected majority. This necessitates finding coalition partners, with the right-wing AfD emerging as a strong opposition force. Despite a significant voter increase for the AfD, the CDU ruled out a coalition with them due to fundamental policy disagreements. Friedrich Merz, the CDU leader, emphasized the need for sensible policies, while AfD co-leader Alice Weidel insists on holding the government accountable.
"We won the 2025 federal election," enthused Friedrich Merz, CDU leader and the Union's chancellor candidate, on election night in Berlin.
"We have doubled! They wanted to halve us, but the opposite has happened," triumphed AfD co-leader Alice Weidel.
"You can hold out your hand as much as you like," he told Weidel, who in turn threatened that, as the largest opposition force, the AfD would put pressure on the government.
"We have fundamental differences of opinion, for example in foreign policy, in security policy, in many others..." reiterated Friedrich Merz on election night.
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