Demarcation Instead of Exclusion: Boris Rhein Calls for a New Approach to AfD
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15 Articles
While the CDU prime ministers stand behind Chancellor Merz in a joint statement, one is positioned with a change of course.
Hessen's Prime Minister Boris Rhein has again challenged the Union's previous fire wall rhetoric. Problems would not disappear if "they were banished behind fire walls," he writes. However, he does not consider possibilities of cooperation.
Hessen's Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU) speaks in plain language: In a recent guest contribution in the WORLD, Rhein opposes the Union's "Brandwall" strategy and wishes for a new way of dealing with the AfD. The tenor: demarcation instead of exclusion. In the guest contribution, Rhein states: "Problems do not disappear by concealing them, displacing them, denying them, banning them behind fire walls or banning parties. They remain unresolved b…
Hessen's head of government questions the hard delimitation of the CDU to the AfD. He pleads for more open debates in the political center.
In dealing with the party classified in part as extreme right, Hessen's head of government demands more demarcation and less exclusion. Otherwise, the political margins would be strengthened.
If the center refrains from right solutions just because the "false" could agree, it strengthens the margins – says CDU Prime Minister Boris Rhein and calls for an end to the exclusion of the AfD.
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