Political Fallout in Germany Intensifies Over Far-Right Pact
- Politician at center of crisis resigns a day after shock vote
- CDU and FDP will hold emergency meetings in Berlin on Friday
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The fallout over a controversial alignment of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats with the right-wing AfD now shifts to Berlin after the politician at the center of the crisis became the first victim.
Just one day after a shock vote in Thuringia sparked outrage, the Free Democrats’ Thomas Kemmerich said he will step down as the state’s premier and seek new elections. Christian Lindner, his party’s chairman, is in the firing line and called an emergency leadership meeting on Friday in the German capital to decide whether he should remain in charge.