2024-10-05 09:09:56
After the elections, the <a href="https://time.news/preliminary-investigations-against-afd-politicians-after-speeches-in-gera-2024-04-28-045840/" title="Preliminary investigations against AfD politicians after speeches in Gera
– 2024-04-28 04:58:40″>Thuringian state parliament met for the first time, which ended in a scandal. Whether this was caused by the AfD or the other parties is perceived differently.
The first session of the newly elected Thuringian state parliament was interrupted several times on Thursday following differences between the AfD and other parties. Senior President Jürgen Treutler (AfD) cut off CDU MP Andreas Bühl and called him to order. He then assumed a “seizure of power”. You can see these and other scenes from the meeting here.
After the meeting was broken off, the Thuringian Constitutional Court is now dealing with the matter before the state parliament meets again on Saturday morning. The failed meeting provoked many reactions among t-online readers.
Rudolf Jeromin is horrified by Treutler and his party friends: “We are experiencing a process like that in the Weimar Republic. There is an attempt to disrupt the processes of the democratic institutions as much as possible or to block them completely. What happened there is not possible.”
Theo Kretzmann On the other hand, he sides with the AfD: “What the old parties have done in this session is simply low-level and shows who the real despisers of democracy are.”
“Thuringians, dress warmly,” warns Norbert Hillebrechtafter seeing the scenes from the failed session. “This is just the beginning – and you wanted it that way,” he emailed, referring to the AfD’s victory in the state elections in Thuringia at the beginning of September.
Werner Müller What is disturbing is the overemphasis on the term “safe right-wing extremist” that applies to the Thuringian AfD and the fact that the other parties do not want to grant it any relevance in the state parliament despite the election victory. “Now there’s just a comeback for it. That’s a good thing and keep it up,” writes the t-online reader, who has been a “proud non-voter” for 40 years.
“The good thing about all the bad things that happened in the Thuringian state parliament is that it has now been shown very clearly what happens when an anti-democratic party has something to say,” says Britta Müller. “That was a small sample of the exercise of power by this right-wing radical party. I hope the wake-up call has now reached all Democrats.”
Ralf Müller recognizes the misconduct of the other side: “The other parties are organizing a kindergarten that is only aimed at the AfD. They should rather explain to the citizens what they would do better instead of just fighting the AfD. You can think of the party whatever you want, but she was elected by a large part of the people.”
Michael Oldemölle I didn’t expect anything other than constant disruption from the AfD as soon as their representatives sat in a state parliament. “It is and remains an undemocratic, right-wing radical party that would only be happy to repeat 1933. The AfD can and will never have a democratic future and should be banned.”
It looks similar Siegfried Potzel: “The interested voter was able to see on Thursday what would happen if the AfD got power. A similarity to the events in 1933 was clearly visible.” He fears: “If this group gains more power, we will probably have to say goodbye to the social consensus of the last 75 years.”