Laschet defends Thuringian CDU parliamentary group

The Thuringian AfD politician Höcke wanted to bring down the red-red-green government.

Left, SPD, Greens and FDP were all against it.

The CDU did not vote.

No problem for Laschet.

Erfurt - The Chancellor candidate of the Union, Armin Laschet, has taken sides for the Thuringian CDU parliamentary group after the vote of the no-confidence vote in the Thuringian state parliament.

The Thuringian parliamentary group chairman had “given a tough speech of demarcation against the AfD,” said the CDU leader in the ZDF summer interview.

"The signal from Mario Voigt was crystal clear: we don't talk to them, we don't cooperate with them, we don't negotiate with them - we don't even go into their games in the state parliament."

The state parliament decided on Friday on a vote of no confidence that the AfD parliamentary group tried against Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left).

The parliamentary groups of the Left, SPD, Greens and FDP voted unanimously with no.

As announced, the CDU MPs stayed in their seats and did not vote - which had already brought them a lot of criticism in advance.

“I very much regret that Red-Red-Green did not keep the promise that we would hold new elections.

That would have been the best way in Thuringia, ”said Laschet.

With the vote of no confidence, the Thuringian AfD politician Björn Höcke wanted to demonstrate parliamentary democracy.

To say as a parliamentary group “We won't play your game here in the state parliament” is legitimate.

Laschet still has respect "when others say we do it with a no-vote".

When asked whether he would like the CDU Bundestag candidate Hans-Georg Maaßen not to have been elected, Laschet said: “Our law provides that the constituency itself decides who the candidate is.

And I think you have to respect that, even if you don't share many positions. ”Dpa