The warning comes from Alternative for Germany’s Deputy Leader Beatrix von Storch who told DW News she believes the German Chancellor is “panicking” ahead of her crucial choice. Ms von Storch claimed her party believes her country and the European Union are going in a “completely wrong direction” and hopes the upcoming regional elections in Germany will be decisive in allowing Angela Merkel to choose the AfD over the former Communist Party as her ally.
She said: “It’s pretty possible that the Christian Democrats are getting together with the Greens, or even with the far left.
“And I think that this may be but we think this is a problem.
“We think that the country and the whole of the European Union – but when it comes to Germany, we talk about Germany – is moving toward a completely wrong direction and we want to stop it.
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“And we will have regional elections by the beginning of September in Saxony and in Brandenburg and we will see how that will end up.
“Because it might be the necessity of the Christian Democratic Party to choose whether they want to go with the far-left, so the former Communist party, the SPD, or with us.
“And this is what we have to think about and I think this is why they are panicking so much.”
The warning comes as Mrs Merkel’s CDU and their coalition partners the Socialist Democratic Party clashed over the nomination of Ursula von der Leyen to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission President.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel abstained from the decision because her Socialist Democratic party coalition allies opposed Ms von der Leyen nomination.
“That is why I very much hope that the reasonable forces in the SPD will prevail in the coming days.”
Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer has thrown her weight behind Ms von der Leyen, insisting she would make a “strong” Commission president.
“It’s a fact that with Ursula von der Leyen, we would have an excellent representative,” she said.
The praise comes despite her preferred candidate, German MEP Manfred Weber, being overly rejected for the top Brussels job.