Contrary to the position of the CDU in the federation work in the Palatinate municipality Frankenstein a Christian Democrat and a AfD politician in the future together in a parliamentary group: CDU politician Monika Schirdewahn and her husband Horst Franz Schirdewahn of the AfD. The merger under the name "Progress Frankenstein" was formed on Thursday evening in the first council meeting, said Monika Schirdewahn. SPIEGEL had already reported on the faction community in July.
Schirdewahn explains the cooperation in the local council with a dispute over the lack of drinking water supply of a local residential area. "We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship, and what my husband and I do is live democracy," she said.
The CDU district committee criticized the cooperation with the AfD sharp and has therefore launched a party exclusion against the politician on the way. Schirdewahn had announced that she would "go to the last resort" against a party exclusion. Among other things, CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer had spoken out against cooperation with the AfD.
Schirdewahn is the only CDU representative in the council with twelve seats - the only AfD representative is her husband. The majority in the council of Frankenstein, a place with about 950 inhabitants, has the Free Voter Community (FWG) with ten mandates.
The CDU party congress in Hamburg had decided in December 2018: "The CDU Germany rejects coalitions and similar forms of cooperation with both the Left Party and with the alternative for Germany."
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