The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the second-largest party, warned that the likely next chancellor will be pressured by left-wing parties to relax strict fiscal rules.
AfD leader Alice Weidel compared Germany‘s finances to those of a company, saying that the likely new government of conservative leader Friedrich Merz would be forced by left-wing parties into borrowing more.
“(He) won’t be able to implement anything that he promised,” she said of Merz, a fiscal conservative who has however indicated that he…
