Special envoy to Erfurt
In the AfD permanence room in Gera, the third industrial city of Thuringia, Stephan Brandner wears a broad smile, while the storm rages on German airwaves. " All this is hysteria, " sweeps this elected member of the Bundestag, also vice-president of the far-right party. The day before, his comrades in the Regional Parliament mixed their voices with those of the party of Angela Merkel (CDU) and the FDP (liberals) to elect an illustrious stranger at the head of the region, himself FDP, Thomas Kemmerich.
The outgoing minister-president of the radical left, Bodo Ramelow, supported for his part by environmentalists and social democrats of the SPD, was beaten with one voice. This election, which took place in the former GDR, plunged the whole of Germany into astonishment, breaking with a democratic tradition dating back more than half a century, consisting in repressing the extreme right at the margins of life. Politics. "It is fortunate that this red-green government
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