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AfD calls for sole CDU government

AfD calls for sole CDU government
According to AfD chairman Jörg Urban, the SPD has largely prevailed in the coalition agreement / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa
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The AfD is interfering in the formation of the government with a proposal: The CDU should govern alone - then the AfD parliamentary group would vote for Kretschmer.

The AfD is calling on the CDU to form a sole government. The coalition agreement between the CDU and SPD bears a left-wing signature and the SPD has prevailed in many areas, said Jörg Urban, the AfD chairman in Saxony. This is exactly what the majority of Saxon voters do not want. "The CDU would be well advised not to form a minority government in this form."

Instead, the AfD believes that the Christian Democrats should decide to govern alone at their party conference on Saturday, "because we have a stable right-wing conservative majority in the state parliament", said Urban. The CDU should take the risk and enter a government completely freely, said Saxony's AfD General Secretary Jan Zwerg. The AfD parliamentary group would then also vote for Michael Kretschmer (CDU) as Minister President.

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