“Red Line” – Union faction deputy Krings for strict demarcation from AfD

Union parliamentary group deputy Günter Krings (CDU) has warned his party against moving away from its previous line of demarcation from the AfD. “The term firewall is poorly chosen because it is often perceived as if we wanted to wall in AfD voters. So I can see more of the term red line,” Krings told the “Rheinische Post” before the end of the two-day CDU presidential retreat on Monday.

“But it leads to the same result: There can be no cooperation between the CDU and the AfD because that is incompatible with the basic values ​​of our party,” Krings continued. “But we have to make the effort every day to explain where the differences lie.”

Regarding the internal party debate about more social justice in the CDU program, Krings said: "We have to ask: What does justice mean? For example, the pension at 63 or today 64.5 is not fair," he said. The facts said that predominantly healthy and well-supplied people would benefit from this, “while others who would have needed it more cannot get it,” said Krings. “If we deviate from actuarial mathematics here, then in cases of doubt it will not be a fair solution.”

At its closed meeting in Berlin, which runs until Monday, the CDU leadership wants to deal with the recent electoral failures and chart the path for the upcoming reforms.