Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens domination of migration policy. After winning a Bundestag motion to

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday said his Social Democratic Party (SPD) would "never make common cause with the extreme right," after a week of political uproar shook Berlin less than one month before national elections.

Germany's conservatives were able to pass a strict immigration motion with votes by the far-right party, marking a historic breach of the "firewall" on working with the far-right on policy. However, the conservative Christian Democrats breached what has become known as the "AfD firewall" on Wednesday when party leader Friedrich Merz put forward a motion