CSU party conference: Söder declares war on the AfD – and warns that the coalition will fail

Munich. CSU leader Markus Söder has warned of the failure of the black-red coalition and called on his party to fight politically against radicals from the right and left. “If the government fails, a government of the democratic center will fail again within two years, dear friends, what should you actually say to an AfD,” said Söder at a party conference on Friday in Munich. “I said a year ago that this could be the last patron of democracy,” Söder called out to the delegates. “I am convinced that this sentence applies more than ever.”

“If we are honest, we are in the middle of a hurricane,” said Söder. "The world is changing, Germany is in transition. The blue wave is rolling, the red front is coming. The elections in the East were a disaster." Söder referred to the electoral successes of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt and the Left in Berlin. The black-red coalition in Berlin must deliver results. “That’s why it’s important now: pull together, do work and achieve success,” said Söder in his speech, which was met with repeated applause.

The CSU leadership wants to once again swear the party to a sharp demarcation from the AfD and the Left. “No cooperation with the enemies of freedom,” says a key motion that is to be passed at the party conference.

The CSU rejects cooperation with the AfD for reasons of content, the paper says. “Anyone who subscribes to conspiracy theories and questions European cooperation and the transatlantic alliance endangers the interests of our country.” In the paper, the left is accused of anti-Semitism, “expropriation fantasies” and an attempt to weaken the security authorities.