While the SPD, CDU and CSU quibble AfD wait

There's a lot happening in Germany's SPD party.

Short-term leader Martin Schulz has nominated the woman from the Eifel Andrea Nahles to be the next leader of the party.

Schulz was to have been the next foreign minister but it now seems Sigmar Gabriel will hold on to the position.

But before the SPD become part of the next German Grand Coalition, rank and file members of the party have to vote yes or no to coalition.

In the meantime a younger generation of SPD members are snapping at the heels of the current leadership. It would seem they have little time or regard for them. They certainly do not want the SPD to enter coalition with the CDU/CSU.

And while the SPD, CDU and CSU quibble among themselves and jockey for seats at the next cabinet, the AfD wait in the sides.

If the SPD enter coalition then the AfD will be the main opposition party.

The AfD is a dangerous party. When they are not outrageous and bombastic, they are sly and nasty.

No country can afford an AfD-style party as the main parliamentary opposition, least of all Germany.