Dispute at the Wall of Fire: Union and SPD are divided in dealing with the AfD

SPDs and leftists ruffle Jens Spahn because he wants to normalize the handling of the AfD. And in the Union fear of the guards of the fire wall is immediately revealed again. Their fatal effect is becoming more and more obvious.

Top politicians of the Union argue that the right-wing party should be presided over by specialist committees of the Bundestag. On the part of the social democrats there is criticism.

The coalition partners are divided about how to deal with the AfD in parliament. While CSU leader Klaus Holetschek joins the Union faction vize Jens Spahn, Katja Mast of the SPD "with all determination" opposes the advance.

A clause in the black and red coalition agreement is intended to guarantee the maintenance of the fire wall. However, in the EU Parliament, where random majority voting is increasing with the AfD delegation, this already creates disagreements between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.

Karin Prien, deputy CDU chairwoman and Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education, advocates "civilized contempt" for the AfD. "All democratic centrist parties have reason to rethink their current strategy because it is clearly not successful," she told the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung." "We are talking about a party that is, in part, right-wing extremist and that continually despises our democracy in the very heart of parliament," she said. Th…

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