German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will discuss the possibility of forming a coalition government with the Eurosceptic, right-wing, populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), the nation’s third-largest political party.
Mr. Steinmeier is planning to meet this week with leaders of various parties “who may have sufficient programmatic intersections to form a government”, including the AfD, a spokesman told Der Spiegel.
The development comes the day after the leader of the AfD’s parliamentary group, Alice Weidel, accused the president of an “undemocratic exclusion” of her party from the coalition talks.
In recent federal elections, the AfD came third with around 12 per cent of the vote, winning them 94 seats in the legislature.
Meanwhile, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and sister Christian Social Union (CSU) parties suffered their worst election result since 1949.
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