Senior figures in Germany's governing coalition will hold crisis talks on S...
BERLIN - Senior figures in Germany’s governing coalition will hold crisis talks on Saturday in response to growing outrage after a state premier was elected with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives.
The election of Thomas Kemmerich, a little-known liberal Free Democrat in the eastern state of Thuringia, was the first in which a state premier won with the support of the AfD, shattering the post-war consensus among established parties of shunning the far right. Leading members of the crisis-prone national coalition - forged between Merkel’s conservatives and the SPD out of necessity in 2018 - are due to meet at the weekend to discuss the situation.
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