Bodo Ramelow made a public statement with Sandra Maischberger on Wednesday about the Thuringian election scandal. He was still stunned - and made bitter allegations to the AfD.
- Bodo Ramelow spoke to Sandra Maischberger about the political quake.
- He is also shocked by the events a week after the election.
- He makes harsh allegations to the AfD - he is irritated when asked for personal complicity.
Erfurt / Berlin - "A miserable game was made here" - left-wing politician Bodo Ramelow drew this conclusion on Wednesday evening with TV journalist Sandra Maischberger about the Thuringian election scandal, with the short-term prime minister Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) with votes from AfD was elected to office *. A week after the events in the prime ministerial election in Erfurt * triggered a tremendous political quake, Ramelow spoke for the first time in public on TV on ARD about the events and was still shocked .
Maischberger (ARD): Ramelow is shaken by the Thuringian election scandal
Maischberger asked the former Thuringian Prime Minister * what was going through his mind at the moment of his failed election . His answer came without hesitation: "Eight days earlier, Buchenwald's survivors were in the same place," said Ramelow. Imagine now that with the votes of a parliamentary group leader, who may be called "legally certified fascist ", a new state government should be formed and a prime minister should be elected with these votes - Ramelow was stunned .
Ramelow also commented on the consequences of the Thuringian election scandal, which affect him personally and his family very acutely. " My family is under police protection, I am under police protection, " said the 63-year-old. He had already had difficult times in Thuringia, but he had never experienced anything like it.
"A situation like I have never seen in 30 years!"
The former prime minister of # Thuringia @bodoramelow on the consequences of the election scandal and hostilities against him and his family. #Kemmerich # Höcke #AfD #maischberger #diewoche @DasErste pic.twitter.com/YKqSbJJhsy
Maischberger (ARD): Ramelow made a comparison between Höcke and Hitler on Twitter
Journalist Maischberger presented herself as horrified as Ramelow was still in the face of the Thuringian events. She asked Ramelow whether he actually saw the AfD right wing Björn Höcke * as the "revenant of Hitler" . This was previously communicated by a Twitter post by Ramelows, in which he showed two pictures of Hitler and Hindenburg , Höcke and Thomas Kemmerich mounted side by side . The politician has since deleted it. "There are no returners from anyone, " said the left-wing politician, "but there is a clear assessment that Mr. Höcke has one goal : he wants to undermine this democratic constitutional state from within."
Bodo Ramelow has since deleted this Twitter post.
© Screenshot: ARD media library
Ramelow made a clear allegation to the AfD , which afterwards smirkingly described its calculating voting behavior in the Thuringian election as a "trap" that it had set the FDP . A "miserable game" had been made and the AfD would have "made the constitutional organs contemptible" .
By the way: The AfD is already planning the next step that is causing a sensation. Group leader Höcke wants to sue Chancellor Angela Merkel * - because of her reaction to the Thuringian prime minister election.
Video: AfD files criminal charges against the chancellor
Maischberger (ARD): Ramelow dismissed all guilt - "Others have to explain"
After these clear blame assignments, Maischberger also asked whether Ramelow was not blaming himself because he had put himself up for election without a majority . With this question, she probably hit a sensitive nerve with the left-wing politician. He became increasingly irritable and justified himself by saying that he had found it “undemocratic” to simply remain in office as managing director. For him it is clear: "What happened on Wednesday has to be explained by others, not me."
Weather expert Jörg Kachelmann also reacted sensitively to a Twitter post by Steffen Seibert on Wednesday. In a separate posting, he raged violently against the government spokesman.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen Digital editors network.
