Appeals to the CDU - and first signals to possibly try it with the left; Wounds lick the SPD; Relief over the just skipping the five-percent threshold in the Greens and FDP - and cheers at the AFD.
These are the reactions after the state election in Thuringia, in which only Bodo Ramelow from the left is the clear winner.
A surprise for CDU top candidate Mike Mohring . He is ready to enter into a coalition with the left of Bodo Ramelow - it would be the first cooperation of left and CDU at the state level, which was categorically excluded before the election.
Now, Mohring said in the ARD Morgenmagazin: "We are ready for such a responsibility, first of all have to explore what that means for Thuringia." Stable conditions are more important for the country than just party-political interests. " On refusals of CDU federal politicians from the evening and from the night Mohring said: "I do not need Berlin to know what is important for Thuringia." He had seen that "Berlin was not useful in the weeks leading up to the election".
For the Left said its parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch , he thought in Thuringia a coalition of Left Party and CDU, despite concerns in the federal parties for possible.
Although he himself represents the position, "that there can be no cooperation due to serious differences with the CDU," Bartsch said the "world" on Monday. "But it is like this: At the state level, those who have achieved an electoral success and can form a coalition decide."
The preliminary official final result can be found hereFor Günther Oettinger (CDU), EU Budget Commissioner, party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer meets no single blame for the fourth CDU defeat after assuming office. Landtag elections were "always a mixture of state and federal issues". Therefore, there is "no special responsibility of the federal leaders", it is rather "a mix to which we all contributed". If you choose the AfD, "then you are against everything".
Raymond Walk , CDU General Secretary in Thuringia, has renewed the cancellation of coalitions with AfD and Left on Monday morning. "We have ruled out that there will be coalition with the borders, both with left and with the AfD." That which applies before the election, must be valid after the election. "That's part of credible politics."
Also the deputy CDU federal chairman Volker Bouffier affirmed his refusal of an alliance with the left party. "I stick to my attitude: no coalition with the left," said Hessens Prime Minister of the spark media group.
The chairman of the Greens parliamentary group, Anton Hofreiter , called on the other hand via spark media on all democratic parties not to exclude a cooperation with the left party. Prime Minister Ramelow could not be equated with the "far-right AfD".
Already on Sunday evening said Green boss Robert Habeck said Thuringia now faces "most complicated" negotiations. "At a stage where democracy is rearranging, we can not really use Ausschließeritis." All democratic parties must be able to talk to each other.
Also SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil called in the ARD morning magazine of Union and FDP, to open for cooperation with the left: "There must throw away ideology, I expect from the CDU and the FDP". He does not see any consequences for the federal government from the Thuringia election. "The SPD rearranges itself," said Klingbeil with reference to the election of a federal presidential duo. Thereafter, a mid-term review of the GroKo be drawn and decided on the possible continuation.
SPD head of state Wolfgang Tiefensee sets for the Social Democrats in Thuringia on a minority government. Despite a lack of own majority, the red-red-green government could continue to work, with changing majorities. All parties on a democratic basis would have to be able to talk. "Complex, even longer talks are pending." Tiefensee did not make it to a direct mandate in the constituency Gera II, he was clearly beaten by AfD candidate Wolfgang Lauerwald.
FDP general secretary Linda Teuteberg - who jumped over the five-percent hurdle only thanks to a handful of votes - avoided speaking as sharply as her party leader Christian Lindner against a coalition with the left. A conceivable four-party coalition of the Left, SPD, Greens and FDP will certainly be discussed with our national association. "We certainly do not aim at that and will now have to wait for the final result." Because it is possible that the Liberals then still the Miss entry into the state parliament of Erfurt.
AfD chief Alexander Gauland offered the CDU to coalition with her if Mohring had "the guts" to do so. AfD top candidate Höcke spoke of a "terrific success". His party now wants to "carry national political responsibility," he said in the station Phoenix. "Now we want to govern."
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