The Erfurt earthquake also leaves others seriously damaged, including in Berlin. A comment by Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.
- Thuringia's 25-hour Prime Minister Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) has already resigned.
- The election earthquake from Erfurt leaves a shambles.
- A comment by Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.
Munich - The Thuringian winners quickly lost the joy of their supposed hussar piece in the state parliament. The 25-hour Prime Minister Thomas Kemmerich has now resigned at the same ape-like pace at which cheeky party friends deleted their congratulations tweets. What remains is a huge pile of broken glass: the wave of exits is rolling in the FDP, a shit storm is raging over the CDU, and party leaders Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Christian Lindner are massive in their authority, perhaps even irreversibly damaged.
Election quake in Thuringia: Right-wing radicals demonstrate the state parties - a comment
Because it is also their leadership failure that the inability of state politicians in Erfurt ultimately turned into a worldwide affair in which right-wing radicals demonstrated the state parties CDU and FDP. Nobody (apart from the Schleswig-Holstein CDU Prime Minister Daniel Günther) can seriously ask both parties to degrade themselves as majority procurers for the ex-communists around Bodo Ramelow, who have been voted out of office; but instead to conspiratorially shake hands with the right-wing extremists around Björn Höcke was, with all despair, an unforgivable beginner's mistake . No German or East German politician should ever forget the violent shocks that still cause 75 years after the end of the war in the state that once produced Hitler and the Holocaust .
Election quake in Thuringia: the aggressive zealot Björn Höcke's claim to power
The "bourgeois politics" so often conjured up by the CDU and FDP in Thuringia cannot be realized by submitting to the claim to power of an aggressive zealot like Höcke. But waiting for the increasingly radical East AfD to become coalition-capable at some point is probably an equally frustrating undertaking. The only chance for the CDU and CSU is to return to a distinctive bourgeois policy that will once again attract citizens. But even there, it is a long and arduous journey, according to Angela Merkel .
