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MALCOLM BRABANT:
About a million migrants poured into Germany in 2015. Chancellor Merkel has always defended her pro-refugee policies, but now she is being punished by voters who believe she ignored their concerns.
Chancellor Merkel has promised to listen to the people who voted for the AFD, and she says she will try to win them over with what she calls good politics. But she does not support having the party in her coalition.
But the chancellor needs to find new partners who are ready to be tough on immigration.
As he tries to form a coalition, the chancellor has agreed to put an annual cap of 200,000 on the number of immigrants, something he previously refused to do. But will it be enough to reject the people who abandoned it in the election?
A question for Werner Patzelt, a political scientist at the University of Dresden.
