AfD Kompakt, September 28, 2021.
A democrat is he who speaks with the other democratically
elected representatives of the people. I am therefore astonished at such a
statement [FDP refusal to speak with AfD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern], especially
since it is not even clear whether the FDP is to be participating in the
formation of a government – and as an opposition party should certainly
interact with other opposition parties. Last year, FDP State chairman and current
Landtag member René Domke would certainly have been ready to have himself
elected Minister-president by the AfD. That makes Wulff’s statement still more
surprising.
Yet in the Nordmagazin it was still more bizarre. There, the FDP had plainly first been elected with pre-paid praise to the Landtag and Herr Wulff appears to be agitating as to who must sit beside the AfD in the plenary hall. Such is on the level of a kindergarten and has nothing to do with political work. The AfD members will in any case self-evidently maintain good practices and democratic customs vis-à-vis all elected representatives of the people. And perhaps the ladies and gentlemen of the FDP may recollect themselves and then come to the conclusion that that is the better way. In the past legislative periods, the Linke delegation also indicated no particularly marked readiness to cooperate with us. That however has not brought them far, as can be seen in Sunday’s election results.
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