Bavaria's CSU urges rightwing shift after election losses


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  • Thursday, 28 Sep 2017

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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