The Economist: Hard Right election win in Germany takes it into "uncharted territory"

Pretty much. And that they have to “respect the voters” by considering the AfD as a coalition partner. Somehow I have a feeling that these talks would turn into “we have to allow them to be disenchanted by being in office, as our coalition partners”.

As a fig leaf she also says they should talk to the left party (die Linke) in exploratory talks. But that’s what it is, a fig leaf about being open minded towards #bothsides

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