The Thuringian CDU has the Way cleared for first talks with the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance and the SPDThuringia’s CDU General Secretary Christian Herrgott said that the state executive committee had authorized him and CDU state party leader Mario Voigt to hold these talks.
It is not yet about coalition talks or exploratory talksThe decision of the state executive board was unanimous.
At the same time, Herrgott made it clear that the CDU’s incompatibility resolution still applies. “That is clear: We will not cooperate with the AfDWe said that before the election and it also applies after the election. The same applies to a coalition with the Left,” said Herrgott. He made it clear that at the beginning of a “long, long and intensive process”.
Previously, CDU federal chairman Friedrich Merz had also stressed that the incompatibility resolution was directed at the AfD and the Left Party and that it was up to the state associations in Saxony and Thuringia how to deal with it.
The CDU was in the state elections on Sunday landed in second place – behind the AfD of AfD right-winger Björn Höcke. However, the situation after the election is complicated. A preliminary The often discussed coalition possibility of CDU, BSW and SPD will not have the majority of seats in the new state parliament in Erfurtit only has 44 seats, the possible opposition from AfD and the Left also has 44 seats – a stalemate.
The CDU state executive committee has already dealt with personnel issues: It unanimously decided that Voigt should run again for the parliamentary group chairmanship. MP Andreas Bühl is said to be running for the post of Parliamentary Secretary. (dpa)
