As of: March 27, 2024, 7:08 p.m
By: Sonja Ruf
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Ahead of the Thuringia election, a debate erupts over CDU posters.
The SPD’s accusation: “fearmongering” and populist methods.
Erfurt – In five months a new state parliament will be elected in Saxony, Brandenburg and Thuringia.
Against the background of the strengthening of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the rest of Germany is looking at the elections in eastern Germany with concern: According to a survey by the opinion research institute Infratest dimap from March 19, 2024, the AfD could be the strongest force in Thuringia with 29 percent become.
As a reminder: The Thuringian AfD regional association, under its chairman Björn Höcke, is classified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as “proven right-wing extremist”.
Now a debate has broken out on the online platform X between two parties in Thuringia that compete with the AfD, namely between the CDU and the SPD.
The focus: The election campaign of the Thuringian CDU.
The core theme of the CDU campaign: criticism and a stance against the current state government, consisting of the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party.
SPD Minister Maier clearly rejects the CDU’s “fearmongering”: “It won’t work.”
The CDU politician and parliamentary group leader, Stefan Gruhner, promotes the new campaign in a post with photos of the posters.
He writes: “With posters all over the country it is clear today why #Thueringen needs the change, what the #CDU will do better in government and has already achieved as an opposition.”
On the posters, under the heading “10 years of red-red-green means”, there are various possible answers given by the CDU about what is currently supposedly going badly under the leadership of the state government.
The CDU offers the following slogans: “Skilled workers are missing.
Especially in the government,” “Last in start-ups, but way up there in bureaucracy” and - “Home alone at night?
The fear runs with you.”
Angry counter-reactions from the Thuringian state government, especially from parts of the SPD, were not long in coming.
The SPD accuses the CDU of right-wing populist methods and “fear mongering” in its reactions.
The Thuringian SPD Interior Minister Georg Maier writes in a post about a CDU poster: “I thought fear-mongering was the responsibility of the left and right populists.
Now the @cdu_thueringen is also trying it.
But it won’t work.”
The EU MP and top candidate of the SPD, Katarina Barley, also reacts angrily to the CDU poster, which implies that the Thuringian government does not protect people, presumably women, on their way home enough and embeds it in a larger overall context.
The 55-year-old writes: “What a disgusting poster from @cdu_thueringen!
Women have always been afraid of walking home alone at night.
From Bavaria to Schleswig-Holstein, 1950 or today.”
The democratic parties have to stick together in view of a Thuringian AfD at 29 percent
Regardless of how controversial the CDU's election posters for the elections in Thuringia on September 1, 2024 may be.
It will be important that all democratic parties stick together in the face of a strong Thuringian AfD.
According to the already cited survey by
Infratest dimap, the CDU and SPD together currently have 29 percent.
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With a third government partner, the Left Party at 16 percent, the BSW at 15 percent, the Greens at 5 percent, regardless of how politically unrealistic such an alliance might be, a solid government majority could be formed against the AfD.
(soru)