I don’t see that happening on the federal level, yet. On the state level, it seems very likely to me that we will have a CDU-AfD coalition in one of the former GDR states some time in the next years. Depending how things develop, I’m also afraid of it happening on the federal level in the next elections. But for now, there’s still too many CDU MPs as well as voters (e. g. my parents) who would be diametrically opposed to a coalition with the AfD. While I don’t trust Merz at all, I think he knows that it would lead to massive trouble from within his own party, something he cannot risk at this point in time.
I don’t see that happening on the federal level, yet. On the state level, it seems very likely to me that we will have a CDU-AfD coalition in one of the former GDR states some time in the next years. Depending how things develop, I’m also afraid of it happening on the federal level in the next elections. But for now, there’s still too many CDU MPs as well as voters (e. g. my parents) who would be diametrically opposed to a coalition with the AfD. While I don’t trust Merz at all, I think he knows that it would lead to massive trouble from within his own party, something he cannot risk at this point in time.