Some CDU politicians, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party, admit granting their support to the far-right AfD party after Sunday's elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The CDU is the party currently governing Germany, led by Friedrich Merz, who has maintained a position of no formal cooperation with the AfD.
The state of Saxony-Anhalt held elections on Sunday, and the results placed pressure on the CDU to consider possible understandings with the AfD in the regional parliament.
The possibility of supporting the AfD represents a challenge to the CDU's historical policy of isolating the far right, and may have implications for German federal politics.




