After the emergence of the AfD in the state election in Thuringia, the Central Council of Jews in Germany appealed to the voters of the party. "Anyone who elected the AFD on Sunday has a shared responsibility for gradually undermining the foundations of our democracy," said Central Council President Josef Schuster.
Those who choose the AfD, choose the way into an anti-democratic Germany, said Schuster. "Who chooses AfD, the farewell to the freedoms of our democratic constitutional state."
"Almost a quarter of voters have opted for a far-right party"
But it would be "expected of every responsible citizen that he looks carefully, which party he chooses," said Schuster. The "excuse of protest choice" no longer draw. The AfD began "with cheap racist sentiment and devaluation of the ruling parties" their voters.
In the election on Sunday have "almost a quarter of voters in Thuringia has opted for a far-right party," criticized the President of the Central Council. "Especially in Thuringia there is no doubt about the right-wing national orientation of the AfD, which in my opinion is classified as anti-democratic."
The AFD had become the second largest party in the election on Sunday with 23.4 percent. The Thuringian state association is led by AfD right wing Björn Höcke.