Thuringia's CDU top candidate does not rule out collaboration with BSW. “We don’t sit like a rabbit in front of a rattlesnake, but instead confront the AfD hard on the issue,” said Thuringia’s CDU leader Mario Voigt in an interview with IPPEN.
He is also his party's top candidate in the 2024 state elections in September - and is already in campaign mode. For him there are also personal reasons: “My grandfather was forcibly expropriated by the communists. He lost everything in six hours”