OPINION
BSW or the Left? The outcome of the election in Thuringia presents the CDU with a choice between the plague and cholera. But ultimately it doesn’t matter which partner they choose, because the only thing that matters is preventing the fascist Höcke.
The state election in Thuringia has brought the CDU into a dead end. Just as haphazardly as the party appeared in the election campaign with its top candidate Mario Voigt, it is now faced with the question: with whom to form a coalition? The answer is actually not difficult when you look at the choices. After the landslide victory of the far-right Höcke AfD, the CDU has to decide. Does it want to be part of a fascist government? Not really! It must now fulfill its democratic duty and do everything to prevent Höcke – with the Left if necessary. So have courage for Antifa, dear CDU!
Thuringia election: The CDU must decide – for or against fascism
The Union’s grandees keep invoking the firewall against the AfD. But members like the state parliamentarian Martina Schweinsburg ensure that from the outside it looks as if this bulwark against fascism is cracking. “An AfD candidate [zur Wahl des Landtagspräsidenten] “To reject it outright” is wrong, Schweinsburg told the star. Ultimately, it depends on the person.
It may be that this is just an individual opinion. But a solid bulwark against the far right looks different.
On Tuesday evening, Schleswig-Holstein’s CDU education minister Karin Prien appeared on Markus Lanz’s show, and her answers developed from minute to minute into a living “Yes, but…“The AfD is bad and right-wing extremist, and there is an incompatibility resolution, BUT such a resolution also applies to the Left. The fascist Höcke? He must be prevented, BUT one cannot really work with the Left, the successor organization to the SED.
Antifascism should be a matter of course for every upright democrat
A trivialization in a subordinate clause. The Left is on a par with the biggest threat to our democracy at the moment. Since the AfD’s victory, it is no longer a question of progressive or conservative, left or right. In Thuringia, the question is: fascism or democracy? And the CDU must also put aside the party political games. No matter how great the differences between the Union and the Left are – what unites them is anti-fascism.
And no, this has nothing to do with marauding left-wing extremists from the Black Bloc. Being anti-fascist should actually be a given for every upstanding democrat. And if that means that the CDU has to venture out of its comfort zone and form a coalition with the Left, which it has demonized for years, then it is its duty to do so.
Every doubt, every little glance in the direction of the AfD makes this party more socially acceptable. Only a clear stance will help against right-wing extremists. The CDU now has the chance to show that it has learned from German history how to deal with fascists – namely not at all.
Source: Stern
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