German centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz expressed his opposition on Tuesday to potentially forming coalitions with populists or far-left parties in order to keep the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) out of power in eastern German states. Merz said he doesn’t think his Christian Democrats (CDU) should consider working with the upstart populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which broke away from the hard-left Die Linke (The Left) party and has been campaigning on a mix of left-wing social policy and anti-immigrant views. Wagenknecht has also demanded an immediate end to m…