Björn Höcke
Thüringen Election
AfD Kompakt, January 13,
2020
[Björn
Höcke is the Alternative für Deutschland chairman in the eastern German state
of Thüringen as well as chairman of the AfD delegation in the Thüringen
legislature. He is a teacher.]
It is an unreasonable state of suspension [Hängepartie] which for months the old
parties here have offered. The country must be governed so as to solve acute
problems. We have extended a hand to the CDU and FDP for a middle-class [bürgerliche], patriotic politics. If the
election programs of the three parties, AfD, CDU, FDP, are compared to one
another, there are found to be large, substantial common grounds which can be
converted into concrete policies during this legislative period. Here can be
mentioned the stop of wind power construction, the return to a capable,
differentiated school system, the strengthening of special needs schools, the
hiring of more teachers, an improved financial apportionment for local
communities, as well as the urgently needed alteration of refugees policy. The
CDU instead shall now support the Linke, SPD and Greens in a state government
from which the people of Thüringen have clearly withdrawn confidence. Yet if
the CDU vote in Thüringen means that red-red-green can continue to govern, then
the CDU ultimately makes itself superfluous.
[Translated by
Todd Martin]
