After the state elections, CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt calls for starInterview with the Chancellor on the question of confidence – and puts the brakes on the candidacy for Chancellor in the Union.
What was going through your mind when you saw the result bars from Saxony and Thuringia on election Sunday?
There is an urgent need for a change in politics in Germany. Without such a change, the results in the East are the precursor to similar election results in the West. The traffic light coalition is now nothing but a pile of rubble, but it is causing more and more collateral damage to democracy. The strength of the AfD and the BSW are a product of the traffic light politics.
Sure, the traffic light chaos. But were there also substantive reasons for the election result?
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