Merkel’s chief of staff Peter Altmaier has ruled out any forms of cooperation in parliament with the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), Sputnik News reports.
Altmaier said that the ideas espoused by the AfD are "unacceptable," as it is dividing the country and pitting people against each other.
"I don’t think we should let the AfD decide which laws the country needs and which it doesn’t in the Bundestag," he said in an interview with Bild am Sonntag.