Doubts about the ban on cooperation
CDU man Mohring open to talks with the Thuringian left
7/7/2023 at 4:25 am
In the most recent survey in Thuringia, the AfD received 34 percent approval, and the right-wing extremists could become the strongest force in next year’s state elections. Under these circumstances, the Union cannot rule out alliances with the Left Party from the outset, believes the former chairman of the Thuringian CDU.
The Thuringian CDU politician Mike Mohring has shown himself open to talks between his party and the left after the state elections next year. In Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow’s party, people worked who “do their job with sense and understanding,” Mohring told the portal “The Pioneer”. After the election, the Union must therefore, in case of doubt, also speak to the Left Party.
Mohring added: “The old Bonn coalition models are gone.” The Left Party is not to be equated with the AfD in the East. “I’m not a friend of horseshoes. The AfD has people accused of incitement to hatred. Those on the left don’t sit,” said Mohring, who was chairman of the Thuringian CDU until 2020 and sits on the federal executive board.
Currently it would not be enough for red-black either
Thuringia has been led by a red-red-green minority government since 2020. According to a recent survey, the AfD has 34 percent in Thuringia. According to the “Thuringia trend” published on Wednesday by the Infratest dimap institute on behalf of MDR, the right-wing party is 13 points ahead of the CDU, which takes second place with 21 percent. The left of Prime Minister Ramelow would therefore come in third place with 20 percent. The SPD follows with ten percent in fourth place. The Greens would also be represented with five percent in the state parliament, the FDP, on the other hand, threatens to miss the entry with four percent. Ramelow is the undisputed leader of the list of the most popular politicians, with 51 percent being satisfied with his work.
In 2018, the CDU had ruled out cooperation with both the left and the AfD in a party congress resolution. Mohring expressed doubts about this determination. “If you build walls like this and also say that the Greens are our main opponent, who should we even act with?” he said. “Who is going to vote for us if we rule everything out? I think we need to break that up.”
At the beginning of June, the mayor of Altenburg in Thuringia, André Neumann, called on his party to reconsider the incompatibility decision in the case of the left. “If we don’t rethink new situations and approach things differently, we will ignore political reality and the will of the voters,” said the CDU politician.