A possible Bundestag candidacy for Hans-Georg Maaßen in the Thuringian constituency of 196 promises considerable potential for conflict.
In the past, the halls in the east were full when the ex-constitution protection chief appeared - whether in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt or Thuringia.
The CDU officials in the Free State, who want to make Maaßen their candidate, apparently remembered these encounters.
But the leadership of the Thuringian Union has no interest in that, not to mention the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Berlin. They fear that the miserable and protracted debate about the Union's relationship with the AfD will break out again with the personnel - a party that the protection of the Constitution is increasingly targeting, especially in the East. But Maassen not only has supporters on site in the Union.