NO MORE FIREWALL? Key Ally of German Chancellor Merz, Saxony Premier Michael Kretschmer Ignites Controversy by Suggesting a Collaboration With Rightwing AfD * The Gateway Pundit * by Paul Serran
Saxony Premier Michael Kretschmer – Wiki Commons
No more exclusion, calls Kretschmer.
In the run-up to the September elections, failing German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is promoting a reshuffle in his government, trying to get things on track to face the growing danger of the right-wing Alternative for German (AfD) party.
In the meantime, a key Merz ally has kicked off a major controversy by suggesting that the establishment conservatives should break the ‘firewall’, and cooperate with the country’s most popular party AfD.
Politico reported:
“Michael Kretschmer, premier of the eastern state of Saxony and a member of the chancellor’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, is challenging Merz’s insistence on keeping the country’s firewall against the surging AfD ahead of crucial elections in September that could put the far-right party in charge of a region for the first time.
‘Anyone who still talks about firewalls hasn’t recognized the signs of the times’, Kretschmer, who leads a minority government in Saxony, told the Handelsblatt newspaper in an interview earlier this week. ‘We need to talk to anyone who wants to talk’.”
As a ‘good’ globalist ‘leader’, Merz has ruled out cooperation with the AfD right-wingers.
But in eastern Germany, the polls show that the AfD has a chance of winning an outright majority in Saxony-Anhalt, and perform well in Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania and Berlin.
“At the national level, POLITICO’s Poll of Polls puts the AfD as the single most popular party with 28 percent support, with the Christian Democrats on 22 percent.
[…] The former communist East has long been a stronghold for the far-right force. It is also in this region that the AfD is known to be most radical, both in terms of personnel and the positions it represents. Out of the five regions in Germany’s East, four regional party branches are classified as right-wing extremist organizations by domestic intelligence agencies.”
In Saxony may reach a parliamentary majority, allowing it to take power at state level for the first time since its foundation in 2013.
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