Following its success in the Bundestag elections, the AfD in Saxony is calling for the firewall that the CDU/CSU has erected against the AfD to be torn down. It now sees it as the Union's turn. It is not a question of the AfD having to make itself look pretty for the CDU, said AfD party leader Jörg Urban. "The CDU must finally become a conservative party again so that it can even form a coalition with us." They are now almost twice as strong as the CDU and need to work on themselves.
Urban accused the CDU leadership of clinging to the red-green camp. The base of the CDU/CSU is already different and must make it clear to its leadership that things cannot go on like this. "People increasingly want drastic political change in Germany." The CDU could no longer satisfy this desire for change.
The AfD clearly won the parliamentary elections in Saxony. The party, which has been classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the Free State of Saxony, received 37.3% of the second vote, leaving the CDU behind with 19.7%. It also won all but one direct mandate.
