Kauder and Strobl warn against collaboration with the AfD before the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt

A week before the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the long-time leader of the Union faction in the Bundestag, Volker Kauder, is warning against any kind of cooperation with the AfD.

Kauder told Table.Briefings: “We must learn from history not to be deceived.” And further: “I am horrified when I hear in conversations: You just have to try it.” The firewall must hold. “Otherwise the CDU is finished.” Kauder admitted that collaboration with the left could tear his party apart. "But AfD definitely not. We have to have learned that."

The long-standing Interior Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Thomas Strobl, also strictly refused to cooperate. Strobl, currently president of the state parliament in Stuttgart, told Table.Briefings: “I will do everything in my power to prevent this.”