Germany's ruling coalition on Saturday called for fresh elections in the ea...
Thomas Kemmerich, Thuringia's newly elected State Premier Minister of the Free Democratic Party reads his statement in front of the media at the federal state parliament of Thuringia in Erfurt, Germany February 7, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
On Thursday, Thomas Kemmerich of the FDP became the first state premier to get into power with the support of the far right AfD, which sided with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats in the vote. “The election of Thuringia’s state premier with a majority that was only reached with the votes of the AfD, is unforgivable,” they said in a joint statement, adding a new premier had to be elected right away.
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