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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of the CDU, on 6 June 2019 in Munich. REUTERS / Michael Dalder

The leadership of the CDU, the German Christian Democratic Party, adopted on Monday, June 24 a resolution to discourage any alliance with the far-right party AfD.

With our correspondent in Berlin, Pascal Thibaut

" All available means will be used to enforce this decision ." The members of the CDU who would be tempted by an alliance with the far-right party AfD are warned: the leadership of the Christian Democratic movement will not tolerate any rapprochement with the Alternative for Germany.

The CDU denounced " a party that tolerates far-right ideas, anti-Semitism and racism in its ranks ". Christian Democrats judge the AfD indirectly responsible for the murder in early June of a regional elected CDU, denounced on the far right for positions deemed too favorable to migrants.

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The CDU is under pressure. Three regional elections will be held after the summer in the eastern Länder where the AfD is very strong. Christian Democrat leaders from this part of Germany recently spoke of a possible rapprochement with the extreme right. In Saxony, where the Alternative for Germany is leading in the polls, his leader is already setting his conditions for an alliance with the CDU, namely three ministers.

The elected Eastern Christian Democrats, members of the governing bodies of their party, approved the text, but stressed that it did not facilitate the task with the elections. In the aftermath of these elections, we will see if the CDU's firm resolution against any alliance with the extreme right is everywhere.