Once again, Christian Democrats and liberals have pushed through a change in the law with the AfD, which the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified as proven right-wing extremist.
The FDP and CDU have once again changed a law in Thuringia together with Björn Höcke’s AfD. On Friday, the three opposition parties pushed through a change to the forest law in the state parliament against the red-red-green minority coalition led by Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Left). The legally controversial law presented by the FDP is intended to make it more difficult to build wind turbines in Thuringia’s forests. A general ban on wind turbines, which applied until 2022, was overturned as unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.
The first change to the law, in which the votes of the AfD, which the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified as proven right-wing extremist, was a deciding factor, caused nationwide debates a few weeks ago. At that time, the CDU, as the largest opposition faction in the state parliament in Erfurt, pushed through a reduction in the real estate transfer tax to 5.0 percent together with the FDP and AfD. The CDU justified its actions by saying that good initiatives could not be prevented just because the AfD threatened approval. The Thuringian CDU received support from the top of the federal party.
Source: Stern
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