State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt: CDU Vice Karin Prien calls for AfD supporters to be excluded from the party

The deputy CDU leader Karin Prien has called for the exclusion of members of her party who may have voted for AfD politician Tobias Rausch in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. »We don't know who elected the AfD state parliament president in a secret ballot. But if it turns out that they were also CDU politicians, then there must be consequences for them," said the Federal Minister for Family Affairs. This also applies to the expected election of an AfD prime minister in December. "The AfD is a right-wing extremist party and it has set out to destroy the CDU," said Prien.

Prien warned of a “test for the CDU as a whole.” Party members who sought closeness and cooperation with the AfD would have to leave the CDU. They therefore endangered the “existence of the entire party.”

There are large parts of the CDU electorate who would no longer vote for the party if they did not have a clear stance on a right-wing extremist AfD, Prien continued. State elections are coming up in five federal states in 2027.