BERLIN (Reuters) - Bavaria's conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) wants talks on forming a new German government to focus on security and curbing immigration, a senior party official said, after sharp gains by a far-right party in Sunday's federal election.
The CSU and its national sister party, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), both pled support to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), which became the first far-right party to enter parliament in half a century.
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