OpinionLeft Party and CDU: When the firewall stands above the issue:
The country and its well-being should be the focus of politics, not a dogma.
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Key FactsReinickendorf AfD Candidate Could Become Deputy Mayor With CDU Votes
Oct 27, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- The vote is scheduled for Thursday, 29 October; the AfD is running lawyer Thomas Ruschin, who switched from the CDU in 2020.
- Reinickendorf CDU chair Marvin Schulz says the approach prioritizes practical policy over political camps and does not mean the CDU is working with the AfD.
- Schulz said blanket rejections of AfD motions had not weakened the party and should not give it a martyr role.
- Former SPD district chair Jörg Stroedter warned that an election would bring down the firewall; he said such people should leave the CDU if Merz wanted credibility.
Anyone who votes for the AfD is playing the extremists’ game and destroying credibility. In any case, that is incompatible with the values of my party, the CDU.— Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) said this after the AfD candidate was elected president of the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt.
Firewall and double standards: Germany's political system in danger: The guest column by Andreas Rödder.
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Key FactsRödder warns of Germany’s political dilemma
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- Rödder says the CDU is tightening its firewall against the AfD instead of drawing boundaries around specific policy red lines.
- He accuses the SPD and Greens of double standards for continuing talks with the Left despite his allegations of antisemitism and clan crime.
- According to Rödder, an exploratory paper envisaged expropriations, legalizing migrants required to leave, and voting rights after five years’ residence.
- Rödder considers polarization between Manuela Schwesig of the SPD and Alice Weidel of the AfD plausible at the next federal election.
“Anyone in our ranks who believes that such people should be elected to public office has no place whatsoever in the CDU.”— Friedrich Merz said this after the election of the state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt.
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Key FactsLegal Battle Over Dortmund’s AfD Exclusion Decision
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- Dortmund’s municipal oversight authority ruled the city council’s decision to exclude AfD votes from decisions unconstitutional.
- Mayor Westphal refuses to revoke the resolution, regarding it as a non-binding political commitment.
- A disciplinary process was initiated against Westphal following his insistence on maintaining the contested decision.
- The dispute may escalate to court as the district government must decide on annulling the resolution.
This party explicitly wants to destroy the CDU; it wants a different country.— Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated this regarding the AfD to emphasize the dangers of collaboration.
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