The CDU's collaboration with the xenophobic AfD is dangerous precedent
The leader of Germany's governing Christian Democratic Union resigned as head of the party on Monday.
"The AfD stands against everything we as the CDU represent," Kramp-Karrenbauer said Monday. "Any convergence with AfD weakens the CDU."to the Free Democratic Party candidate Thomas Kemmerich by one vote , German weeklyYet on Friday, it looked as if Kemmerich, "the right's favoured candidate" according to Der Spiegel, would step down because of protests against his election.
"Analogies like this prove nothing. But one lesson from the Weimar Republic is that far-right extremists come to power because mainstream conservatives want to use them to remain in power,""It's now up to the leadership of the CDU and the FDP to categorize this flirtation with the far-right as a one-off occurrence. A slip that may never repeat itself."
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