NPD man elected mayor - Federal politicians demand consequences

After the election of a far-right to the mayor in Hesse - with votes from the SPD, CDU and FDP - demand leading federal politicians of the parties consequences. SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil called for the election to be canceled. "The SPD has a very clear attitude: we do not cooperate with Nazis! Never!" Wrote Klingbeil on Twitter. This applies in the Federation and in the country as in the municipalities. "The decision in Altenstadt is unbelievable and unjustifiable and must be reversed immediately," demanded the Secretary General of the Federal Party.

The SPD has a very clear attitude: we do not cooperate with Nazis! No way! This applies in the federal government, in the state, in the municipalities. The decision in #Oltenstadt is incredible and can not be justified with anything. It must be reversed immediately. #noNPD

On Thursday evening, the NPD politician Stefan Jagsch was elected mayor of a Gemeindeortsteils with 2500 inhabitants in Hessian Altenstadt. Unanimously. Why representatives of SPD, CDU and FDP pronounced for Jagsch is unclear.

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NPD politician Stefan Jagsch: "In the absence of an alternative"

The local SPD chairman commented on the "Hessenschau" as follows: "In the absence of an alternative, as session participants told me, all the other representatives of the other parties elected him as head," Markus Brando said. Jagsch is Deputy National Chairman of the NPD in Hesse, he appeared several times in the Hessian constitution protection report.

Tauber indirectly demands party exclusion for participants

Defense Secretary Peter Tauber (CDU), to whose constituency the place belongs, threatens with consequences. "Anyone who paves the way to a state office as a radical democrat is irresponsible, oblivious of duty and history, with his mandate," he tweeted. "Who lacks the political and moral compass and (who) as a democrat makes such an irresponsible voting decision is intolerable in the CDU and on a CDU electoral roll."

The parliamentary director of the FDP in the Bundestag, Marco Buschmann, called the election in the Internet service "twice as bad: first, that Democrats choose such a person, second, that no democratic candidate was ready to take over the task."