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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) has accused the AfD top candidate Michael Frisch of not distancing himself from right-wing extremist movements in his party.
"You represent a party that is right-wing extremist in many areas," said Dreyer on Thursday evening in the SWR during a discussion of the top candidates for the state election.
"You always pretend you have nothing to do with it," criticized Dreyer.
"You're the boss of the place and you don't clean up.
They don't distance themselves either. "
The cabinet has been sitting next to the AfD parliamentary group in parliament for several years.
"We hear what is being said: this is racist, that is exclusionary, that is discriminatory," criticized Dreyer.
"This state of Rhineland-Palatinate lives from the fact that we are tolerant, that we are diverse and that we are colorful."
SWR moderator Sascha Becker had previously approached Frisch on research by “Report Mainz”, according to which there were indications that a man with a neo-Nazi past was working for the AfD parliamentary group.
Frisch said that the man denied this and that he himself had not the slightest doubt that he was an “upright democrat”.
The incidents in question were also more than ten years ago, and the presumption of innocence still applies.
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