Dresden: City council approves AfD application payment card for asylum seekers. “The firewall is collapsing,” tweeted Silke Schöps, city councilor for the AfD city council group in Dresden.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz made it clear after a debate about the "firewall" against theAfD in local politics: "There will be no cooperation between the CDU and AfD at the local level either" Merz told the "Welt" that he would join in wanting to take a closer look at the matter.