Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s comments come days after the AfD won a landslide election victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.

The German chancellor rules out working with the AfD even though he concedes its win in Saxony-Anhalt has upset his party’s foundations.

The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany scored its biggest win yet Sunday with 44 percent of the vote in the Saxony-Anhalt, against about 18 percent for the center-right CDU,…