German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected any form of cooperation with the AfD. “There cannot and should not be any cooperation with this party,” the SPD politician said on Friday. This applies to district councils as well as to city and municipal councils.
“I also see no reason for cooperation in the municipalities,” Scholz emphasized in an interview with the “Thuringian general”. And added: “Anyone who wants to have a daycare center built can also make such a proposal themselves. He does not need an extreme right-wing party for that.”
The approach of the AfD’s CDU sparked a debate
Statements by CDU leader Friedrich Merz about how to deal with the AfD in municipalities recently led to heated discussions. Merz had said on ZDF in view of the AfD’s electoral success: “We have to accept that. And of course the local parliaments have to look for ways to shape the city, the state and the neighborhood together.”
After strong criticism, including from his own ranks, he assured that his party’s 2018 incompatibility decision applies. It reads: “The CDU in Germany rejects coalitions and similar forms of cooperation with both the Left Party and the Alternative for Germany.”
“It has to be about winning back voters”
Asked if the situation in Thuringia’s state parliament, where the AfD has won the majority several times, is a problem, Scholz said: “The real problem is that the AfD gets so much support – from voters who support the party’s extremist goals. , but also of those who actually think these goals are wrong, but want to express their concerns or protest with their election.” It must be a matter of winning these voters back.
Source: Krone
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