Germany's Chancellor Merz:
People tell me: "Why don't you work together with the AfD? They agree with you on many issues. You would have a majority in the German Bundestag."
I will not do that. And there is a very simple reason. This party wants to take Germany back to the time before Adenauer.
With Adenauer, we left the age of nationalism behind us in Germany. And I will not lead the Federal Republic of Germany—and I will not lead my party—back behind the era of Adenauer.