A conversation about the role of the CDU in the election of an AfD politician to the office of state parliament president
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It's about the political debate about the election of an AfD member of parliament as president of the state parliament with the alleged involvement of the CDU.
When Karl-Josef Laumann speaks up, people in the CDU listen carefully. The 69-year-old's word carries weight. Laumann, the trained machine fitter, sits as labor minister in Hendrik Wüst's cabinet and was head of the Union's social wing for a long time.
DIE ZEIT: Mr. Laumann, it was probably your party, the CDU, that helped elect the first AfD politician to the office of state parliament president on Tuesday. How do you look at it?
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