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Berlin (AP) - AfD chairman Jörg Meuthen has suggested that Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) resign because of the dismissal of State Interior Minister Holger Stahlknecht.
"Mr. Haseloff fell out with both his state party and the parliamentary group and should resign," said Meuthen on Friday.
Instead, dismissing the interior minister “just because the CDU wants to vote with the AfD” shows the CDU leadership's understanding of democracy.
Haseloff had fired his party colleague Stahlknecht on Friday and thus drew the consequences of an unsettled interview with the interior minister and CDU country chief on the coalition dispute over the broadcasting fee. In the interview, Stahlknecht had announced a CDU minority government in the event that the coalition with the SPD and the Greens should break in the dispute over the increase in the radio license. Haseloff had always excluded a minority government. The AfD had announced that it would vote against the increase in the radio license fee, which the CDU also rejected.