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“Constructive-destructive”: this oxymoron sums up the strategy successfully implemented by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Thuringia. "Install someone on the throne in Erfurt who will be debunked by Berlin," says Götz Kubischek, mentor of the New Right, quoted by the weekly Der Spiegel . It is also the name of the trap into which the Thuringian CDU fell. Against his will or of his own free will, depending on the version. Now that the scandal is swelling, the political staff rejects the "Schwarzer Peter" - the "lousy" German.
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The scenario of a third-round election of the liberal Thomas Kemmerich, with the voices of the far right, Christian democracy and the center, was already circulating in the corridors of the Regional Parliament of Erfurt before the vote on "Wednesday black". Was the "coup" , as the local press calls it in French, fomented by the regional leader of the AfD, Björn Höcke, in agreement with the local leader of the conservative party Mike Mohring? Difficult
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