Merz’s coalition dream hinges on implosion of smaller rivals

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Merz hopes for two coalition options

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Germany’s Merz again rules out coalition with far right, but opens door to center-left parties

Germany’s likely next chancellor suggested he’d consider governing with the center left — but not the AfD or the liberals.

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Merz opens up to a coalition with social democrats and greens and rules out a deal with the ultra-right

The four-party televised debate among the leading German candidates served last night for the leader of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and to which all polls award victory in the elections this coming Sunday, Friedrich Merz, to clear the equation of the coalition government in which he will begin to work from February 24. Merz, who has reiterated until the satiety that he will avoid a pact with the extreme right wing of Alternative for Germany (A…