Alexander Gauland, October 8, 2021, Laschet, Merkel and CDU

AfD Kompakt, October 8, 2021.

Armin Laschet remains to the last an indecisive procrastinator. Instead of making a clear break, he muddles the announcement of his withdrawal from the office of party chairman in half-heartedness and ambiguities. A real renewal appears otherwise than this stumbling retreat in installments.

It is again ever more clearly shown that for the CDU, neither with nor without Armin Laschet, there will be no turning away from the ruinous Merkel course. For that, there is in sight neither the will nor the persons who could embody such a renewal. After sixteen Merkel years, the CDU is in terms of program as in personnel fully wasted away. Frau Merkel has fundamentally and indeed conclusively destroyed the CDU.

 

[trans: tem]

 

Tino Chrupalla, October 7, 2021, Corona and Constitution

AfD Kompakt, October 7, 2021.

Former Federal Constitutional Court President Hans-Jürgen Papier’s demand for a constitutional reworking of the Corona preventive measures regime confirms the line pursued by the AfD delegation as critical opposition to this policy of an undeclared state of exception not covered by the Constitution. The juridical and parliamentary examination of Corona policy and vaccination campaign needs be led at the Federal as well as at the States’ level so as to avoid in future crisis situations disproportionate infringement of the rights of freedom. The newly elected German Bundestag must urgently concern itself with this. The next Federal government is obliged to without delay and completely repeal the still existing restrictions of the basic rights.

 

[trans: tem]

 

Alice Weidel, October 6, 2021, Automobile Industry

AfD Kompakt, October 6, 2021.

Within five years automobile production in Germany has been almost halved to just 2.9 million vehicles. Primarily the Mittelstand suppliers, who in Germany are in the area of hundreds of thousands of industrial workplaces, are thereby gravely affected.

Corona lockdowns, interrupted worldwide supply chains and the microchip shortage caused thereby have intensified the crisis of the automobile industry. The deeper origin of the downfall however is the ideological war against the combustion engine and individual mobility, and the presumptuousness of the policy for the planned economy regulation of the automobile market.

We need to most quickly leave this wrong way. Otherwise threatens the destruction of a key industry which represents the backbone of our prosperity and Germany’s status as an industrial country.

 

[trans: tem]