Former German leader Angela Merkel is reunited at the Chancellor Candidate Frederick Marz after relying on votes from a distant option for the German party (AFD) to pass a resolution in Parliament last week.
Merkel, who once led Merz’s Orthodox Christian Democratic Union (CDU), issued a statement after a vote saying that the Merz’s previous vow was the “great national political responsibility” to not work with AFD.
He defended this public stance on Wednesday night as Germany later turned to the election in February.
Merkel said at an event hosted, “I felt that it was not right to remain silent in such a decisive situation.” Time Newspaper.
He said: “I do not join the general political debate, but I had a question of fundamental importance.”
Merkel rejected the blame on AFD growth
Merkel said that the AFD as a Chancellor, as a Chancellor, politically benefited from the controversy over the migration policy between the CDU and his Bavarian Sister Party, CSU.
However, he dismissed the allegations that his migration policy was politically “misguided”.
“When I left the post, the AFD was 11%,” said Merkel.
“The fact that it is now at 20% is not my responsibility.”
Edited by: Roshni Majumdar
