Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens domination of migration policy. After winning a Bundestag motion to reinstate border controls with votes of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the chamber rejected a law on to clamp down on migration.
Merz’s use of the AfD drew the ire of ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel, his predecessor as CDU leader.
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