Thomas Kemmerich's election as governor of the eastern state of Thuringia shakes German politics and highlights tensions in Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union
Thomas Kemmerich, Thuringia's newly elected state premier minister of the Free Democratic Party arrives to address the media at the federal parliament in Erfurt, Germany, February 7, 2020.
Kemmerich's election was only possible thanks to a maneuver by the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD. When the state legislature voted to pick a governor on Wednesday, the party threw its support behind Kemmerich in an apparent bid for mainstream respectability. Kramp-Karrenbauer had struggled to impose her authority since taking over the party's leadership and emerged weakened after CDU's regional lawmakers ignored a recommendation from Berlin not to back Kemmerich.
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