Several East German CDU politicians have joined the call for a different approach to the AfD. The parliamentary group leader in the Thuringian state parliament, Andreas Bühl, told the "Bild" newspaper: "If a law that was found to be correct based on factual considerations and after democratic deliberation also meets with approval from the political fringes, that is no reason to revise it." Those who base their policies solely on who approves of them are confusing morality with politics.
The parliamentary group leader in neighboring Saxony, Christian Hartmann, told the newspaper that the CDU must "find its own position beyond all firewall debates and then implement it consistently". Saxony's CDU General Secretary Tom Unger criticized the way in which all other parties had dealt with the AfD in recent years had not led to it becoming weaker.
