'The Wing', the toughest faction of the German extreme right that has swept Thuringia

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The Alternative Populist for Germany (AFD) has doubled its results in this Sunday's elections in Thuringia and fed the monster inside. The leader of AfD in that federated state and exponent of the most radical wing of the party, Björn Höcke, has obtained 24% of the votes, despite his incendiary and revisionist speech . Even when the network that has been built within the formation, Die Flüge, (the Wing) is under surveillance of the secret services because of its proximity to the extreme right and contacts with neo-Nazis.

Höcke's success is unquestionable. It has doubled its results with respect to the elections of five years ago and placed the party in the second position of the regional political spectrum. And if not everyone in AfD has rejoiced, let alone traditional parties have. The reason given by the list head of the Greens is simple. He said it last night before television cameras: Björn Höcke is a "fascist."

Höcke celebrated his triumph accompanied by his associates and AfD co-chairman Alexander Gauland, who has always been condescending to Höcke. The first described the memorial to the Jews killed in the Holocaust as the "monument of shame." Gauland believes that National Socialism was "a bird crap" in the long history of Germany.

Gauland does not appear for re-election at the congress held by AfD at the end of November and the question that now arises is whether Höcke, after the triumph in Thuringia and that of his allies in Saxony and Brandenburg, will try to enter the Executive and expand from there its nationalist and xenophobic network. He has not lost occasion during the campaign to ensure that if he comes to power he will cut the rights of all people of foreign origin . And that includes religious freedom, prohibition of building mosques and immigration policy in general.

Höcke has many enemies in AfD, those who try to make the party what was originally the now very diluted Christian Democratic Union (CDU), moderate the speech and prepare to take on government tasks. With figures like Höcke, the washing that leaders like AfD's head in Berlin, Georg Pazederski, or the federal training co-president Jörg Meuthen has defended, makes it impossible.

All forces exclude a coalition with AfD

AfD sources consulted by this newspaper believe that Höcke will not attempt to assume power at the federal level for fear of not having the necessary support, which would crack the image of a strong man. "Die Flüge", a network to which some 30,000 members belong, is already represented in the federal executive in the person of Andreas Kalbitz.

Höcke, despite his electoral success and willingness to assume responsibilities, he will not find any partners. All political forces have excluded a coalition with AfD and, given the character, will keep their word.

Another thing will be for the CDU to continue demonizing "Die Linke," the post-communist and dissident social democratic refuge party that led the Government in Thuringia for the past five years and has won the elections again. He obtained 31% of the votes, three percentage points more than in 2014.

In the hairpin created by the extreme parties in that federated state, there is no possibility of creating an alternative center majority . And that is worrisome. "It is the first time in post-war history that the traditional parties, the CDU, the Social Democrat (SPD), Liberals and Greens, do not get the parliamentary majority, or forming four-party," said Friedrich Merz, the former head of the Twitter parliamentary group of the CDU and rival for the succession of Angela Merkel in the party of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.

Governance goes through "Die Linke" and the regional group of the CDU in Thuringia, which has lost eleven points to be in third place with 21.8% of the vote and has said that "it is willing to favor it." This was announced to the television cameras of the first network by his boss, Mike Mohring. "We are willing to take responsibility. For me, stability in Thuringia is more important than party interests," Mohring said. Moving on would lead to an unprecedented coalition in the country. It would be equivalent to a coalition between the PP and Podemos .

At the headquarters of the CDU in Berlin, alarms and messages have been raised against all collaboration with the extremes, whether AfD or Die Linke multiply. To that reminder and with the freedom of decision that regional leaders have in their field, Mohring has responded that "I don't need Berlin to know what is important for Thuringia." He himself has verified that "Berlin has not been of any use the weeks before the elections."

"It has been a very bitter result," Kramp-Karrembauer reacted, which blamed the poor results of the CDU on "special circumstances" and discussions in the government coalition parties in Berlin.

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