Germany, in Thuringia Kemmerich resigns, elected with the votes of the far right Afd

Thomas Kemmerich, the German liberal leader, elected prime minister of Thuringia thanks to the votes of the far-right party Afd resigned. Kemmerich himself, who had had the support of CDU, liberals and precisely Afd defined the inevitable choice. The national leaders of the CDU, starting with Angela Merkel, had strongly criticized what happened in Thuringia. Until yesterday, the Chancellor’s party had always refused any agreement with nostalgic movements from the Nazi past.

The parable of Kemmerich governor of Thuringia duration practically 48 hours scarce; in the land of former East Germany a stalemate and ungovernability had arisen following the regional elections of last October. Linke, a radical leftist party, had been the most voted with 32% of the votes, followed by Afd (22), who had surpassed Angela Merkel’s CDU by a whisker. No solution to give Thuringia a government and that would exclude the far right was gone. On an alliance with the AFD, the national leaders of the major parties had vetoed. Surprisingly, however, liberals and the right and CDU converged their votes on Kemmerich, causing a political earthquake. Underlined by the fact that it falls exactly 75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.