# AfD co-chair urges Merz to ‘draw conclusions’ after crushing election defeat

https://mins.news/en/item/66523

- TASS, 2026-09-20 19:55 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2190337

> AfD co-chair Alice Weidel urged Chancellor Friedrich Merz to respond to the CDU’s poor result in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election by abandoning its political “firewall” against cooperation with the right wing. She said the AfD’s long-term strategy is coalition talks with the Christian Democrats. The AfD led with about 37%, while the CDU took 5.5%, its worst state-election result.

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