The Latest: Hoax tweet adds to German government tensions

In this Wednesday, June 13, 2018 photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, talks to Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, left, prior to the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP) In this Wednesday, June 13, 2018 photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, talks to Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, left, prior to the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

By Associated Press June 15, 2018 2 min read

BERLIN (AP) – The Latest on disputes within German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government (all times local):

1 p.m.

Some media in Germany have briefly fallen for a hoax tweet announcing that Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had broken up his Bavarian party’s decades-old alliance with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in a dispute over migration.

A Twitter account that resembled a local broadcaster’s said Hesse state governor Volker Bouffier, a senior member of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, had said in an internal email that Seehofer was dissolving the alliance.

Seehofer’s Christian Social Union and Merkel’s CDU campaign together in national elections and have a joint parliamentary group.