Alexander Gauland
Politics
AfD Kompakt, November 4, 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.]
It is indicative of the state of the CDU that
within the party a possible coalition with the Linke party can be openly
disputed, yet anyone who proposes talks with the AfD will be immediately
threatened with expulsion from the party. He who dares to express an opinion
divergent from the still dominant Merkel line will be mercilessly punished. The
incident clearly shows how much in the meantime the remaining middle-class [bürgerliche], conservative forces in the
CDU have been pushed to the periphery. Those responsible in the CDU are allowing
themselves to be driven away from the thinking of the public, instead of
sounding the prospects of a bürgerliche government,
across the aisle from the Linke, Greens and SPD, which even now would be possible
in Thuringen.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
