AfD rejects Ilse Aigner as Germany's potential federal president over party ties
In the debate over a potential candidacy of Bavarian state parliament president Ilse Aigner (CSU) for the office of German federal president, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has spoken out against the CSU politician.
"We in the AfD are convinced that the federal president must be a figure respected across all parties and factions—a person of authority esteemed by the entire nation, not a party politician in need of a position who abuses the highest office of state to continue pursuing partisan politics," AfD co-leader Alice Weidel told Bild in its Saturday edition.
Weidel argued that Aigner, in her role as president of the Bavarian state parliament, had "demonstrated time and again that she cannot shed her identity as a party politician, even in that office, and that the interests of the governing CSU take precedence over the rights of the opposition." The AfD, she said, was drawing a clear conclusion from this. "For us, Ilse Aigner is therefore not a viable candidate for federal president."
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