The CDU state premiers Michael Kretschmer and Mario Voigt have once again defended the CDU/CSU's vote with the AfD in the Bundestag. "You have to react when a broad majority of the population perceives something as a problem, such as irregular migration," Thuringia's head of government Mario Voigt told Der Spiegel. With regard to the firewall debate, Voigt told the magazine that the Social Democrats and Greens were "laboriously trying to maintain something that no longer exists anyway".
Michael Kretschmer, Minister President of Saxony, told Der Spiegel that the best way to defend democracy was to solve the problems. "And the problems that are the most pressing from the point of view of the population, and not those that politicians have declared as such."
The CDU and CSU in the Bundestag had accepted a majority with the help of the AfD in order to push through their proposals on migration policy. This had sparked fierce protests from the CDU/CSU just a few weeks before the election.
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