“Then the firewall will fall” – In Reinickendorf, the election of the AfD candidate with CDU votes is looming

In the Berlin district of Reinickendorf, the election of a deputy mayor from the AfD with votes from the CDU is looming. This is what “Bild” reports. The chairman of the Reinickendorf CDU, Marvin Schulz, told the newspaper: "The political system in Germany is inefficient and is breaking down. We have now decided to pursue factual politics instead of camp politics."

The AfD won 18 percent of the vote in the Reinickendorf election. “As a party based on the rule of law, we take this seriously,” said Schulz. He had previously told the “Tagesspiegel” in an interview that the AfD should no longer be given the opportunity to play the role of “martyr.” "Under my responsibility, we also pursued a policy here that unanimously rejected the AfD's applications - without discussing the content. And I simply have to say that this policy of exclusion was not successful because it did not lead to the AfD becoming weaker," he explained.

The election for deputy mayor in Reinickendorf will take place on Thursday. The AfD is running with the lawyer Thomas Ruschin, who switched from the CDU to the AfD in 2020. After the election of the AfD state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt at the beginning of October, Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) said: "Anyone who gives their vote to the AfD is playing the extremists' game and destroying credibility. In any case, that is not compatible with the values ​​of my party, the CDU."