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Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off.

By Christopher F. Schuetze and Jim Tankersley

Berlin reports

The guy who was strongly favored to become Gerguyy’s next chancellor has made an ordinary commitment this week, either for his political career and for his country’s firewall in political extremism.

He took position as he expected.

In an effort to paint himself and his party as complicated on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democrats’ leader in the poll chiefs, pushed through a series of measures tightening borders and speeding deportations to parliament this week. He did so with the election of the German party, or AfD, of which parties have been classified as extremist through German intelligence agencies.

On Friday, El Gambito ended with an overwhelming legislative defeat for Mr. Merz, dissatisfied in his own party and the retirers of the new legitimacy of AFD, a chain reaction that can stretch the siege of M. Merz in most of the majority of the Surveys

Mr. Merz’s preference to have AFD has damaged a taboo in German politics that had ended since the end of World War II.

It left Mr. Merz facing fierce criticism from political opponents, religious leaders, Holocaust survivors and former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who remains a member of Mr. Merz’s party. Tens of thousands demonstrated outside of conservative Christian Democrats’ party offices across the country.

Despite criticism and several possibilities to take a step back, Mr. Merz to bring a bill strengthening immigration regulations to the chamber’s Parquet field on Friday. He failed.

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