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1 GERMANY Merz issues AfD warning as he sizes up SPD coalition The doubling of support for the far right in Germany’s federal election was “the last warning” to the country’s mainstream parties to provide effective leadership, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s victorious conservative alliance, has said. Speaking on Monday after his CDU/CSU alliance came first with 28.5% of the vote, the man who is on course to become the next German chancellor said centrist parties needed to heed the surge in support for the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). The AfD won more than 20% of the vote, about twice the share it garnered at the last election three years ago. But it will not be part of negotiations to form a coalition government because of the “firewall” between…

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