AfD accuses Friedrich Merz's CDU for abandoning its anti-immigration plans after winning the election

The winner of the German legislative elections, conservative Friedrich Merz of the German Democratic Union (CDU), said Monday he wanted to hold talks with the Social Democrats to quickly form a government, which he said Europeans are eagerly awaiting.

Before last month's federal election in Germany, Merz presented himself as a hardliner on immigration.

In January, the CDU had joined forces with the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) with the aim of passing "a five-point plan" that called for greater efforts to prevent illegal immigration, intensify deportations and other migration controls in the wake of multiple terrorist attacks perpetrated in Germany by suspected asylum seekers.

Merz went so far as to state "Democracy is also endangered when a social and political minority uses radicals as a tool to permanently ignore the will of the majority of the population. That is why we will no longer let you, the SPD and the Greens, tell us what to do."

However, after the election, Merz indicated that he intends to reach out to the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of the defeated head of government Olaf Scholz, in the hope of forming a government with the left, which favors illegal and mass immigration into the country.

On Wednesday, AfD co-chairwoman Alice Weidel said, "According to the current state of coalition negotiations, there will be no changes in migration and naturalization policy. Turbo naturalization will continue, and the borders will remain open. There is nothing left of Merz's five-point plan."

As evidence of political weakness, Merz has quickly ceded ground to the SPD and pledged to maintain the reforms of the previous Social Democratic government, such as dual citizenship for non-E.U. immigrants and a reduction in the time needed to obtain citizenship.

Germany seeks to be the largest military power in Europe

In addition to caving on the immigration issue, the likely incoming chancellor also backtracked on public spending after winning the election.

The Bundesrat, Germany's upper house of parliament, this month approved a massive rearmament and modernization plan pushed by Merz.

The plan, worth several hundred billion dollars and requiring changes to strict debt-limit rules in the German constitution, was approved by a two-thirds majority of 53 votes in the Bundesrat, which represents the regions.

The bill also won the approval of the deputies in the Bundestag, the lower house.

The AfD, which opposed the bill, argued that it impoverishes future generations of Germans and could threaten the stability of the euro and financial markets across Europe.