Alexander
Gauland
Elections
in Germany
AfD
Kompakt, August 14, 2019
[Alexander Gauland is a national
chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland as well as a chairman of the AfD
delegation in the German Bundestag where he holds a seat representing the eastern state of Brandenburg. State elections
in Brandenburg and Saxony will be held September 1.]
For
too long has the CDU dealt like a stepmother with the the citizens in the east.
The systematic prejudice against easterners is now being being denounced even
from within the CDU. AKK’s [Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, CDU general-secretary] demands
for an increased presence of national politicians in the east indicates that
she does not understand the electoral situation in the east. The problems with
which the people are actually engaged are: uncontrolled mass migration, the
decline of domestic security, and the lack of investment for the maintenance
and construction of infrastructure. For too long were these problems neglected
by or else initially caused by the CDU. The citizens do not want more
politicians but a better politics. The CDU obviously has no connection to the
reality of people in the east. It cannot thus win back the forsaken trust.
[Translated
by Todd Martin]
