Merkel faces new crisis as far-right emerges as kingmaker

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BERLIN (REUTERS) - Senior figures in Germany's governing coalition will hold crisis talks on Saturday (Feb 8) in response to growing outrage after a state premier was elected with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

BERLIN - Senior figures in Germany's governing coalition will hold crisis talks on Saturday in response to growing outrage after a state premier was elected with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

In a move that outraged her Social Democrat coalition partners, Dr Merkel's Christian Democrats sided with the AfD. "On the initiative of the SPD, the coalition committee is to meet on Saturday," SPD national leader Norbert Walter-Borjans said late on Wednesday." 'Sinful and shameful' - Germany as a whole risks being damaged unless there are new elections in Thuringia," Mr Sigmar Gabriel, a former SPD leader, said on Twitter on Thursday.

 

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