The co-chair of the "Alternative for Germany" Alice Weidel said after her party's record result that her political force is ready to participate in forming a government.
"We have achieved a historic result. We have never been so strong in the entire country. We have become the second strongest party and have now secured our status as a people's party. "We are ready to participate in the government, we are always ready to lend a hand to fulfill the will of the people," Weidel said, speaking at the party headquarters in Berlin after the preliminary results of Sunday's vote were announced.
The conservative bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, which is leading in the election, has ruled out forming a governing coalition with the Alternative for Germany. Weidel warned the CDU/CSU against forming a government with left-wing parties, noting that if that happens, "new elections will come sooner than everyone thinks." "And then we will overtake the CDU as the strongest party. That is our goal," the politician said.