Towards the end of the political crisis in Germany

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Angela Merkel, returning from South Africa and Angola, received the main members of her government, Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, in the afternoon. The SPD had announced that it wanted to leave the government if the CDU did not clearly distance itself from the far right.

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With our correspondent in Berlin, Nathalie Versieux

Angela Merkel took over in Berlin on Saturday afternoon. The Chancellor, who has just returned from an official trip to southern Africa, dismissed a secretary of state who had applauded the election in Thuringia of a liberal president minister supported by the far right. This resignation was one of the conditions imposed by the Social Democrats in pursuit of the coalition.

At the same time, the head of the CDU in Thuringia, the much-contested Mike Möhring, announced that he would not run again in May. Finally the ephemeral ill-elected Liberal President Thomas Kemmerich finally presented his resignation announced Thursday. Apparently everything is back to normal.

But Thuringia still has neither a stable majority nor a government. And in Berlin looks with concern towards Saxony Anhalt where regional elections will be held in 2021. A strong score from the AfD could there also lead to the quasi-paralysis of the institutions.

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