After the election of an AfD politician as state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt, the CDU is calling for clarification.
CDU general secretary Franziska Hoppermann sees the election of an AfD politician as state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt as a serious blow for the CDU and calls for clarification about voting in the secret ballot.
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Tobias Rausch was elected President of the State Parliament in the inaugural state parliament session in Magdeburg.
CDU general secretary Franziska Hoppermann described the election of an AfD politician as state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt as a “serious blow” for the CDU. “It is a political-historical turning point for our country,” Hoppermann told the Funke media group. “For us as Christian Democrats, this is a serious blow to our liberal values.”
It is unclear whether AfD man Tobias Rausch also received votes from the CDU. “How and whether the clarification of a secret election can be successful will have to be clarified in the state parliamentary groups,” said Hoppermann. The CDU parliamentary group manager in the Bundestag Catarina dos Santos-Wintz made a similar statement. “It is not my job as a federal politician to promote this clarification. “That’s what has to happen,” she said, referring to the state parliamentary group on the ntv and RTL program “ Frühstart ”.
“And you have to ask yourself how you can reconcile making such a decision with your conscience. In any case, I couldn’t do that,” continued dos Santos-Wintz. Supporting an extremist party or a government led by it is incompatible with the values of the CDU, explained Hoppermann.
Rausch was elected President of the State Parliament on Tuesday with 48 votes in the inaugural state parliament session in Magdeburg. However, the AfD and the BSW together only get 44 votes. The CDU parliamentary group had recommended that its 15 MPs abstain, but there were only 5 abstentions.
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